Tag: Upper Peninsula (Mich)

Is It an Octopus? a 4-Year-Old Asks. No, a Shipwreck From 1871.

Tim Wollak and his daughter Henley spotted a mysterious object on their boat’s sonar. Experts say they most likely discovered the George L. Newman, which sank during the Peshtigo fire in 1871.

A Century-Old Mystery Surfaces From Lake Superior

A lumber fleet left the docks of Baraga, Mich., in 1914, and was never seen again. A team of shipwreck hunters found two of its vessels more than 100 years later.