Editing Dreamland, Michigan

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'''Dreamland''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] on [[Copper Island]] (the [[Keweenaw Peninsula]]), in [[Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, Michigan|Torch Lake Township]], [[Houghton County, Michigan|Houghton County]], in the [[Upper Peninsula of Michigan|Upper Peninsula]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. It has been described as being a "district of [[Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, Michigan|Bootjack]]"<ref>{{cite web|title=Portage Lake (photograph by J.W. Nara)|url=http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=603168#|access-date=2007-08-30}}</ref> or in Bootjack,<ref>{{cite web|title=Valley SnoDrifters Snowmobile Club Web Page|url=http://www.northwoodsdirectory.com/snowdrifters/valleysnodrifters.htm|access-date=2007-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009094536/http://www.northwoodsdirectory.com/snowdrifters/valleysnodrifters.htm|archive-date=2007-10-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> but it is a separate town. The town consists almost entirely of the Dreamland Inn (sometimes called the Dreamland Bar & Restaurant, Dreamland Hotel<ref>{{cite web|title=Dreamland Hotel|url=http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3715994516|access-date=2007-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928021027/http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3715994516|archive-date=2007-09-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> or "Dreamland Hotel and bar;"<ref>{{cite web|title=Jacobsville - Michigan's Upper Peninsula|url=http://hunts-upguide.com/jacobsville.html|access-date=2007-08-30}}</ref> it is often referred to as being in [[Lake Linden, Michigan|Lake Linden]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Dreamland Hotel in Lake Linden, MI - AOL Local Yellow Pages|url=http://yellowpages.aol.com/business/dreamland-hotel/ahmeek/mi/0,105041310/|access-date=2007-08-30|archive-date=2018-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121927/http://yellowpages.aol.com/business/dreamland-hotel/ahmeek/mi/0,105041310/|url-status=dead}}</ref>—due to that being its mailing address)<ref>{{cite web|title=Dreamland Hotel - Lake Linden, MI - PubCrawler.com Information for Dreamland Hotel|url=http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/dsp_restaurant_zoom.cfm/flat/ID=114494|access-date=2007-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928121212/http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/dsp_restaurant_zoom.cfm/flat/ID=114494|archive-date=2007-09-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> and some docks on [[Torch Bay]].

==History==
Dreamland was founded in 1913 with the building of the resort (containing a bar and hotel rooms often frequented by loggers unable to make it home in the winter) by Norbert Sarazin. A dance pavilion, originally quite a local attraction, burned in 1921 and Prohibition caused the closing of the bar; it reopened in 1947.<ref>{{Cite news
  | last = Nordberg
  | first = Jane
  | title = Dreamland: Bootjack Dreamin' Is About Family
  | newspaper = The (Houghton, Michigan) Daily Mining Gazette
  | pages = Copper Country 2007 Special Section, p.34
  | date = August 25–26, 2007
  }}</ref>

Logging was formerly the main industry in the town.<ref>{{cite web|title=Office-Nara Logging-Dreamland: Photograph by J.W. Nara from Michigan Technological University digital archives|url=http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/showbib.aspx?bib_id=604753#|access-date=2007-08-30}}</ref>

==Geography==

===Climate===
Dreamland has a [[humid continental climate]] but winters are typically long and snowy with much [[lake effect snow]].

==Notes==
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==External links==

{{Houghton County, Michigan}}

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[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Houghton County, Michigan]]
[[Category:Houghton micropolitan area, Michigan]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Michigan]]
[[Category:1913 establishments in Michigan]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1913]]