Dreamland, Michigan Explained

Official Name:Dreamland, Michigan
Pushpin Map:Michigan
Pushpin Label:Dreamland
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Name3:Torch Lake
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Coordinates:47.0978°N -88.4131°W
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:1913
Postal Code:49965 (Toivola)
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID

Dreamland is an unincorporated community on Copper Island (the Keweenaw Peninsula), in Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It has been described as being a "district of Bootjack"[1] or in Bootjack,[2] but it is a separate town. The town consists almost entirely of the Dreamland Inn (sometimes called the Dreamland Bar & Restaurant, Dreamland Hotel[3] or "Dreamland Hotel and bar;"[4] it is often referred to as being in Lake Linden[5] —due to that being its mailing address)[6] 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.[7]

Logging was formerly the main industry in the town.[8]

Geography

Climate

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Portage Lake (photograph by J.W. Nara). 2007-08-30.
  2. Web site: Valley SnoDrifters Snowmobile Club Web Page. 2007-08-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20071009094536/http://www.northwoodsdirectory.com/snowdrifters/valleysnodrifters.htm. 2007-10-09. dead.
  3. Web site: Dreamland Hotel. 2007-08-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928021027/http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3715994516. 2007-09-28. dead.
  4. Web site: Jacobsville - Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 2007-08-30.
  5. Web site: Dreamland Hotel in Lake Linden, MI - AOL Local Yellow Pages. 2007-08-30. 2018-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121927/http://yellowpages.aol.com/business/dreamland-hotel/ahmeek/mi/0,105041310/. dead.
  6. Web site: Dreamland Hotel - Lake Linden, MI - PubCrawler.com Information for Dreamland Hotel. 2007-08-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928121212/http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/dsp_restaurant_zoom.cfm/flat/ID=114494. 2007-09-28. dead.
  7. News: Nordberg . Jane . Dreamland: Bootjack Dreamin' Is About Family . The (Houghton, Michigan) Daily Mining Gazette . Copper Country 2007 Special Section, p.34 . August 25–26, 2007 .
  8. Web site: Office-Nara Logging-Dreamland: Photograph by J.W. Nara from Michigan Technological University digital archives. 2007-08-30.