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Located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, bordering Wisconsin.
The county was named after the Chippewa word "agogebic," meaning a body of water hanging on high.
The French first explored Gogebic County. Its early residents were Indians,
missionaries and trappers. Iron was discovered in 1871. With the railroad in
1884 the iron ore was shipped. Mining operations were in Ironwood, Bessemer, and
Wakefield. Gegebic County economy consists of a variety of industries such as recreation,
forest products, precision tools, plastic molding and service-based businesses.
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