Day 14 – Landed in Menominee
We landed in Menominee after crossing Green Bay around 2:00. After a three hour tour. Harbor is quite nice. They converted a water works building into a harbor house. The Touhy (Leone) beach field house was a converted water works building (most of you are saying duh!).
Here is some background on Menominee:
Menominee, city, seat (1861) of Menominee county and the southernmost city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It is located on Green Bay (an embayment of Lake Michigan) at the mouth of the Menominee River opposite Marinette, Wisconsin, with which it is connected by three bridges. In 1796 a fur-trading post was established there. Lumbering began in 1832, reached its peak in the 1890s, and ended in 1930. Manufactures include paper products, furniture, industrial and electrical equipment, and helicopters. Dairying (notably cheese production) is important, though the industry has been in decline in the area since the 1980s. Menominee—named for the Menominee tribe, whose name refers to the wild rice once gathered along the riverbanks—is also a hunting resort and fishing port. The Menominee County Historical Museum has exhibits on the area’s Native American cultures and on the fur, timber, and fishing industries. J.W. Wells State Park is about 25 miles (40 km) northeast. Inc. 1883. Pop. (2000) 9,131; (2010) 8,599.
We took a taxi to the grocery store and found out that one of the biggest industries here is Fincantieri Marinette Marine which builds small Frigates for the Navy and Coast Guard Cutters. Apparently they are lining the river waiting to be fitted out. I’m going to have to take a walk down there to take a look.