Editing Ahmeek, Michigan (section)

===Early days and founding===
Mining itself in the community began around the year 1880 as the [[Ahmeek Mining Company]] began as an exploratory branch of the already-existing [[Seneca Mining Company]] to work the [[Copper|copper-rich]] [[Kearsarge Amygdaloid Lode]]. The Ahmeek Mining Company formally opened in 1903, thus becoming its own separate entity apart from the Seneca, however operations of the [[Ahmeek Mine]] under the newly independent company initially began in the year 1902. The local area grew because of its location on the [[Mineral Range Railroad]].<ref name="Keweenaw">{{cite web|url=http://www.visitkeweenawcounty.com/html/ahmeek.html |title=Ahmeek |work=Visit Keweenaw County |access-date=February 10, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717215624/http://www.visitkeweenawcounty.com/html/ahmeek.html |archive-date=July 17, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite book|title=The Mineral Range Railroad|last=Monette|first=Clarence J.|year=1993|isbn=0-942363-42-6|location=[[Lake Linden, Michigan]]}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mindat.org/loc-8386.html|title=Ahmeek Mine, Ahmeek, Keweenaw Co., Michigan, USA|website=www.mindat.org|access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book|title=A Guide to Michigan's Historic Keweenaw Copper Mining District: Photographs, Maps, and Tours of the Keweenaw—Past and Present|last=Molloy|first=Lawrence J.|year=2011|isbn=978-0-9791772-1-7}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> In 1908, the construction of the Ahmeek Mining Company Office was completed, as designed by the architect Paul Macneil.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/cca/ahmeek-mine-office/|title=Ahmeek Mine Office|date=December 6, 1908|website=Copper Country Architects|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref> The Village of Ahmeek was founded by [[Joseph Bosch]], the creator of the [[Bosch Brewing Company]], in 1904. Attorney James A. Hamilton became the first postmaster of Ahmeek on February 5, 1909, the same year in which it was incorporated as a village.<ref>Romig, Walter. ''Michigan Place Names'' (Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig, not dated) p. 13</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":5" /> The village was plotted by two real estate agents from [[Calumet, Michigan|Calumet]] by the names of Faucett and Gunk. The two agents divided the property into lots and then sold them piece by piece. As of the year of the village's incorporation, Maurice Kenel served as the first village President of Ahmeek, having been elected March 15, 1909.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":7" /><ref name=":9">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theenchantedforest.com/html/ahmeek.html|title=Ahmeek, Michigan|website=www.theenchantedforest.com|access-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite web|url=http://blog.adventurepublications.net/2018/04/ahmeek/|title=Ahmeek, Home to the Last Manned Lighthouse on the Great Lakes|date=April 18, 2018|website=Adventure Publications|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref> The village firehall was built several years later in 1911 at a total sum of $2,925 [[United States dollar|dollars]].<ref name=":0" /> The local Calvary Cemetery, which is also known as the Ahmeek Cemetery, was created a year later in 1912.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mfhn.com/keweenaw/cemeteries/default.html|title=Keweenaw County Cemeteries|website=www.mfhn.com|access-date=January 16, 2019}}</ref>