North Counrty Trail through Two Hearted River

The Two Hearted River is a river in the eastern

Upper Peninsula The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by t ...

of the U.S. state of

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

. It is located entirely within McMillan Township in Luce County. The river runs approximately through forested wilderness,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed January 3, 2012 and drains into

Lake Superior Lake Superior in central North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh wa ...

. It rises in several short branches in northeastern Luce County, about southeast of Grand Marais. The north and west branches meet approximately south-southeast of Muskallonge Lake State Park. The main branch flows generally northeast, approaching Lake Superior at a sharp angle. It enters the lake approximately east of Deer Park. The Little Two Hearted River has its river mouth about to the east of Two Hearted River. The

North Country Trail The North Country National Scenic Trail, generally known as the North Country Trail or simply the NCT, is a footpath stretching over from Middlebury in central Vermont to Lake Sakakawea State Park in central North Dakota in the United States; ...

crosses near the mouth of the Two Hearted River along Lake Superior.

History

A Michigan Historic Marker commemorates the Two-Hearted Life-Saving Station built in 1876 at the river mouth. It was a simple two-story building with a small lookout tower manned by six to eight volunteer surfmen who conducted rescues of the ''Satellite'' (1879) and the ''Phineas S. Marsh'' (1896). The station, along with the rest of the

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, was integrated into the

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in 1915, decommissioned in the 1930s, and its structures were razed in 1944.

Popular culture

Bell's Brewery, a

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based in

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, makes a highly rated (the best

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according to Zymurgy Magazine, the publication of the

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) India Pale Ale named Two Hearted Ale, with a graphic that features the river. The river is a popular destination for recreational fishing. As such, it was the title of a famous short story, "

Big Two-Hearted River "Big Two-Hearted River" is a two-part short story written by American author Ernest Hemingway, published in the 1925 Boni & Liveright edition of ''In Our Time'', the first American volume of Hemingway's short stories. It features a single prota ...

", by U.S. author

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fic ...

. Hemingway used the name because of its appeal; however, the geography of the story indicates that Hemingway was really describing a different trout stream, the Fox River near Seney. The story, set after

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, was first published in 1925 as part of the collection ''

In Our Time In Our Time may refer to: * ''In Our Time'' (1944 film), a film starring Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid * ''In Our Time'' (1982 film), a Taiwanese anthology film featuring director Edward Yang; considered the beginning of the "New Taiwan Cinema" * ''In ...

'' and republished in 1972 as part of ''

The Nick Adams Stories ''The Nick Adams Stories'' is a volume of short stories written by Ernest Hemingway published in 1972, a decade after the author's death. In the volume, all the stories featuring Nick Adams, published in various collections during Hemingway's li ...

''. Later the short stories Part I and II start out the 2000 collection ''Hemingway on Fishing'' edited by Nick Lyons.

References

External links

U.S. Coast Guard Search & Rescue Index
{{authority control Rivers of Michigan Rivers of Luce County, Michigan Life-Saving Service stations Tributaries of Lake Superior

History

Popular culture

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