Station: Gay, MI

Gay is located at the very southern tip of Keweenaw County on Keweenaw Bay. It was home to two stamping mills, the Mohawk Mill and the Wolverine Mill and was settled about 1898. [MPN]

Photo info: The Copper Range depot at Gay in 1961. [Carl Brown photo, Alan Loftis collection]

Notes

Time Line

1904. May 20. A loaded eastbound ore train strikes a lone engine and box car head on, on a curve near Gay, in the Keweenaw peninsula. The "cornfield meet" killed the engineer of the ore train. [SSS-2022-Q1]

1934. The Boniface-Gorman Lumber Company resumes operations at Gay and by year's end had shipped 118 carloads of pulpwood to locations in Wisconsin. [CRR]

1943. John Hendrickson, 68 of Gay was injured fatally Friday afternoon in a collision of Copper Range railroad handcars. Two other men were injured. [SJH-1943-1113]

1962. Gay has a population of about 100 and is wholly dependent on the Dion Lumber Co. located here for livelihood. About 60 residents are employed by the firm which has an annual payroll of $100,000. [IDG-1962-1003]

Industry

• Dion Lumber Company. See above.
• Mohawk copper Mill.
• Wolverine copper Mill.