Raymbaultown (or Old Raymbaultown) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Houghton County in the U.S. state of

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

. The community is located within Calumet Township. As an unincorporated community, Raymbaultown has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own. The community is served by the Calumet 49805 ZIP Code. Raymbaultown is a small mining location south of Calumet that was named after the Raymbault Mining Company, a less successful mining company that had previously owned the property in 1866 prior to the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. Its namesake originates from

Charles Raymbault Charles Raymbault (1602 in France - 1643 in Quebec) was a Jesuit missionary. Entering the Society of Jesus, Raymbault was procurator to the Canadian mission when he was called to Quebec. He traveled to the Sault Sainte Marie with Saint Isaac Jogu ...

(1602 - 1643), a French Jesuit missionary who in 1640-41 co-founded the la mission du Sault-Sainte-Marie with fellow Jesuit missionary, St.

Isaac Jogues Isaac Jogues (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Wyandot people, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake Geo ...

. The location was originally populated by mining employees, immigrants of predominantly of Italian, Slovenian, and Croatian descent. In the 1920s the locals were known to produce moonshine known as "Raymbaultown Rye" and wines (e.g. dago red, and grappa) in their basements, and for playing ice-hockey in local outdoor rinks during the long winters (e.g. the Raymbaultown-Laurium Hockey Team, and Calumet Blackhawks) producing players like Frank Gresnick (1914 - 2002) and Joseph Kuzma (1907 - 1931).Joseph Kuzma, Local Hockey Star, Passes. Calumet News (Calumet, Mich.), 11 Nov 1931, p. 8.

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