Franklin School Ruins

Franklin School Ruins is a ruins in Franklin Township, Houghton, Michigan. Franklin School Ruins is situated nearby to the ruins Remains of North Quincy (No. 6) Shaft, as well as near North Quincy (No. 6) Dry House.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hancock High School and Portage Lake Lift Bridge.

Hancock High School

School

Hancock Central High School is a public school located in Hancock, Michigan. Their current location in Hancock is at 501 Campus Drive. Their athletics teams are nicknamed the Bulldogs, who have a long-standing rivalry with their neighboring city of Houghton's teams, the Gremlins. Hancock High School is situated 4,000 feet west of Franklin School Ruins.

Portage Lake Lift Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Portage Lake Lift Bridge connects the cities of Hancock and Houghton, in the US state of Michigan. It crosses Portage Lake, a portion of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the northwest. Portage Lake Lift Bridge is situated 1½ miles south of Franklin School Ruins.

Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw

Museum

Photo: Chris857, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw in Houghton, Michigan, is a non-collecting museum that houses changing exhibits about local cultural and natural history. Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw is situated 1½ miles south of Franklin School Ruins.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Franklin Mine and Hancock.

Franklin Mine

Hamlet

Franklin Mine is a small unincorporated community in Houghton County, Michigan, United States. The area is on Quincy Hill, northeast of Hancock, and lying partially within Quincy Township and partially within Franklin Township.

Hancock

Town

Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Houghton and Hancock are a pair of small towns in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan, and home to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University.

Ripley

Hamlet

Ripley is a small, unincorporated community in Franklin Township situated upon a slope, just east of Hancock on M-26 and across the Portage Lake Canal from Houghton.

Franklin School Ruins

Type: Ruins
Categories: building and historic site
Location: Franklin Township, Houghton, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

47.14642° or 47° 8′ 47″ north

Longitude

-88.56746° or 88° 34′ 3″ west

Open location code

86VH4CWM+H2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 422173953

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Remains of North Quincy (No. 6) Shaft and North Quincy (No. 6) Dry House.

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