SUPPORT FOR MOVING FORWARD REUSE CONCEPT PLAN Quincy Smelter, Franklin Township, Quincy Smelting Works, Franklin Township, Michigan

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Quincy Smelting Works has the potential to be a unique and significant regional destination – providing jobs, community pride, recreational opportunities and a catalyst for heritage tourism in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Co-locating National Park’s headquarters, maintenance and docking facilities on the Quincy Smelter property provides a strategic location just north of the Portage Canal to introduce visitors to the story of Michigan’s copper mining industry alongside the gateway to the scenic and rugged beauty of Isle Royale. Locating Isle Royale National Park headquarters, maintenance and docking facilities on the Quincy Smelter property will: • Provide Isle Royale with new facilities on Portage Lake that may not otherwise be possible, and • Support the continued preservation and increase interpretation of a National Historic Landmark within Keweenaw National Historical Park.

STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT The recommendation outlined in this proposal was developed over three years of extensive interagency and community collaboration. During this time, significant progress has been made to support future use for the Quincy Smelting Works. EPA has completed the cleanup of the site, and the National Park Service has conducted a value analysis of the proposal. In addition, a developer has been enlisted to determine feasibility, financing and cost implications of the recommended plan. Community Future Use Goals The attached proposal has broad community support and has been endorsed by the • Preserve Quincy Smelter for public education Quincy Smelter Steering Committee. and interpretation of park themes.

• Relocate Isle Royale’s headquarters and facilities PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION to the site. Several steps are needed to transform the vision to reality: • Provide a regional destination for the Upper Peninsula’s heritage tourism economy. • Determine optimal development, finance, and ownership structure to meet objectives of all parties and fund the project. • Integrate compatible uses to attract a diversity • Align Isle Royale’s programming needs with the layout of the Smelter buildings. of visitors, generate a feeling of activity and provide for year-round use. • Identify and pursue other funding for access and stabilization of the non Isle Royale portions of the site. • Provide improved public waterfront access.

This proposal includes the background, the community goals and a recommended • Ensure the long-term economic sustainability concept plan for moving forward. and stewardship of the site.

Sponsored by EPA Region 5 Superfund Redevelopment Initiative October 26, 2011 INVESTING IN THE REGION

BACKGROUND CANADA

The Quincy Smelting Works is part of the Quincy Mining Company National Historic Landmark ISLE ROYALE District within the boundary of Keweenaw National NATIONAL PARK Historical Park (NHP). The site includes the

copper smelting complex of the Quincy Mining GRAND Company – the most complete example of an early PORTAGE twentieth century copper smelter in the world. Minnesota When the Keweenaw NHP was established in 1992, Congress recognized the Quincy Smelting Works as KEWEENAW NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK representing a key component of the story of copper mining on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. HOUGHTON KeweenawThe site is also Heritage part of the Torch Lake Sites Superfund Site due to stamp sands deposited on site during copper Ranger III ferry route to Isle Royale. mining industry operations. EPA Region 5 completed DULUTH

cleanup of the site in September 2011 and has Keweenaw County Historical Society Passenger Ferry Adventure Mining Company • Eagle Harbor Lighthouse & Museum CopperMichigan Harbor simultaneously sponsored a multi-year reuse planning • Central Mine Site to Isle Royale Fort Wilkins A.E. Seamen Mineral Museum • Phoenix Church & 26 Historic State Park • Blacksmith Shop Calumet Theatre process to facilitate the restoration and reuse of the Brockway Mtn Dr Copper Eagle Harbor Schlatter Chassell Heritage Center 26 Lake site. Calumet Unit: Eagle Harbor 41 Lake Copper Range Historical Museum • Keweenaw National Historical River Medora Delaware Manitou Park Headquarters Lac La Keweenaw Coppertown Mining Museum • Keweenaw History Center Copper Mine Belle Point Island Delaware Copper MineSince 2008, the reuse planning process developed • Calumet Theatre 41 • Coppertown Mining Museum y a Point Finnish American Heritage Center at Finlandia University • Keweenaw Heritage Center w 26 Deer y Isabelle a foundation of interagency collaboration, held a at St. Anne’s B Gratiot Lake ic Lake n Fort Wilkins State Park • Upper Peninsula Firefighters e Rd Sc y Memorial Museum l Mohawk Ga community open house and working session, defined a - Hanka Homstead o le n C ppe l io r C e McLain t it B Houghton County Historical Museum a y a N - L a community vision for the site and formed the Passenger Ferry State G c Houghton Calumet ay La Keweenaw County Historical Society Park Rd Quincy Smelter Steering Committee. This process to Isle Royale 203 Laurium l Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne’s i Laurium Manor Mansion Tours a Gay r T y Lake Linden Laurium Manor Mansionhas resulted Tours in broad stakeholder and interagency r t n u Houghton County Historical Museum Old Victoria o C momentum around the vision of Quincy Smelter as a Finnish American Heritage Center er pp Ontonagon County Historical Museum o 26 LAKE at Finlandia University C Hancock Porcupine Mountainscultural Wilderness heritage State Parkdestination and the gateway to Isle Quincy Unit: • Keweenaw National Historical Park Houghton Quincy Mine & Hoist A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum Information Desk (summer only) Royale. Copper Range • Quincy Mine Tours U.P. Firefighters Memorial Museum LAKE Historical Museum Isle Royale National Park Headquarters SU PERIOR South Range Chassell PORTAGE Painesdale Heritage LAKE Center Chassell Chassell- S UPE RIOR Fourteen Mile 26 Painsdale Rd. r

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Keweenaw National Historical Park was established to preserve and interpret the story of The Keweenaw Heritage Sites are places that contain significant cultural and/or natural the rise, domination and decline of the region’s copper mining industry. To achieve this, the resources and make a unique contribution to the copper mining story. Embodying stories of National Park Service and the park’s advisory commission partner with sites owned and oper- hardship, ingenuity, struggle and success, each site allows you to explore the role mining ated by state and local governments, private businesses and nonprofit organizations. The played in people’s lives here and afar. Keweenaw Heritage Sites program is an aspect of this partnership.

Overhead rail trestles are one of the historic features at Quincy Smelter. Source: EPA. CONCEPT PLAN

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PROPOSAL Cultural Landscape Components Below: Reverberatory Furnace Building (a) and Dockside Warehouse (b) slated for rehabilitation and reuse. The Quincy/Isle Royale redevelopment proposal Existing Canopy includes:

•1 Rehabilitating the historic Reverberatory Furnace building for reuse by Isle Royale National Park.

•2 Rehabilitating the historic dockside a b warehouse as a visitor welcome center and passenger waiting area.

•3 Building a dock and waterfront connection to the welcome center.

•4 Building a marine maintenance facility. •5 Adding access and parking facilities. SUPPORT FOR MOVING FORWARD Quincy Smelter, Franklin Township, Michigan

For more information, contact:

Glenn Ekdahl Supervisor, Franklin Township 906-369-1498 / [email protected]

Mike Pflaum Superintendent, National Park Service 906-483-3020 / [email protected]

Scott See Exec. Dir., Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission 906-483-3040 / [email protected]

Rosita Clark Site Reuse Coordinator, EPA Region 5 312-886-7251 / [email protected]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Executive Members Tom Baker, Park Ranger/Mgmt. Asst., National Park Service The Quincy Smelter Steering Committee is a collaborative group of individuals, organizations, and agencies working in support of Franklin Glenn Ekdahl, Supervisor, Franklin Township – Co-Chair Township’s revitalization efforts. Through cooperative planning, Phyllis Green, Superintendent, Isle Royale National Park fundraising, education, and support we will return this facility to Ed Jenich, Houghton County Board of Commissioners beneficial use in a way that both enhances the quality of life in our Bill Laitila, Mayor, City of Hancock community and communicates the story of our copper mining Scott MacInnes, Mayor, City of Houghton heritage for future generations. Mike Pflaum, Superintendent, National Park Service - Co-Chair Scott See, Exec. Dir., Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission - Co-Chair

General Members Technical Advisors Glenda Bierman, Manager, Quincy Mine Hoist Association Amy Berglund, U.P. Regional Representative, Senator Carl Levin Dallas Bond, former Executive Director, Keweenaw, Peninsula Tom Bloom, SRI Coordinator, EPA Region 5 Chamber of Commerce Tom Casperson, State Senator (or designee) Cynthia Cote, Director, Copper Country Arts Sandra Clark, Director, Michigan Historical Center Steve DeLong, Landscape Architect, National Park Service Rosita Clark-Moreno, Reuse Project Manager, EPA Region 5 Kim Hoagland, Chair, Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission Scott Cornelius, Project Manager, MDEQ Phillip Johnson, President, Finlandia University Brian Conway, Michigan State Historic Preservation Officer John Laitinen, Board Trustee, Franklin Township Steve DeLong, Landscape Architect, National Park Service Pat Martin, Chair, Department of Social Sciences, MTU Jeremy Hosking, Regional Manager, Senator Debbie Stabenow Phil Musser, Executive Director, KEDA Matt Huuki, State Representative (or designee) Meg Pachmayer, Planner, Western U.P. Planning and Development Traci Jahnke, District Representative, Congressman Dan Benishek Region Flo McCormack, Grant Services Coordinator, Michigan Association of Betsy Rossini, Isle Royale National Park Counties Tim Scarlett, Graduate Program Director. Industrial Archeology, MTU Dave Novak, Community Involvement Coordinator, EPA Region 5 Mary Sears, Quincy Smelter Association Nefertiti Simmons, Remedial Project Manager, EPA Region 5 John Slivon, Hancock City Council Member U.P. Director, Governor Rick Snyder