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If you are familiar with or live in the UP then you
certainly are familiar with a UP sauna. Michigan’s UP
was home to a large number of Finnish immigrants
that settled there in the late 1800’s. Their descendents
still live in the UP in large numbers. The original
immigrants brought their knowledge of the sauna with
them. Soon many homes had a UP sauna behind the
house providing all the benefits that only a sauna can
provide. It was not long before other immigrants
discovered and utilized the sauna as well.
In the Western UP, copper and Iron mining was
flourishing from the early to mid 1900s’. Hundreds of
large and small mines provided the metal that America
needed to grow. Mining towns like Calumet,
Ishpeming, White Pine, Hancock and Iron Mountain
provided the men needed to bring the ore out of the
ground. As a result the commercial UP sauna came
into being. The UP sauna was used after a shift in the
mine to ease the pain of hard rock mining. It also was
a place where a miner could remove all the sweat and
grime of the mine before going home.
Many of the Finnish immigrants worked in the woods
of the UP as loggers and lumberjacks. This was winter
work when Ice and snow were used to move white
pine logs to the spring landings. The UP sauna was
again used to ease the pain of physical labor and to
keep crews healthy. The Finns knew that a good
sauna was the best way to keep from getting sick and
if you did get ill then the UP sauna was the way to get
back on your feet.
Once the land was cleared many lumberjacks turned
to farming. Farmers made good money supplying food
to the mining towns and logging camps across the
UP. Behind most farm houses was a traditional UP
sauna. In some cases homes had the sauna built right
into the house itself. This was sometimes risky since a
sauna was known to catch fire from time to time. The
benefit of having an indoor UP sauna came when the
snows were deep and getting to and from the outdoor
sauna was not always pleasant.
UP sauna manufactures are still producing great
sauna stoves and building custom saunas. Owning
and using a UP sauna is just part of living north of the
Big Mac Bridge. It is fair to say that the UP sauna
tradition is still alive today and hopefully it always will.
UP Sauna
certainly are familiar with a UP sauna. Michigan’s UP
was home to a large number of Finnish immigrants
that settled there in the late 1800’s. Their descendents
still live in the UP in large numbers. The original
immigrants brought their knowledge of the sauna with
them. Soon many homes had a UP sauna behind the
house providing all the benefits that only a sauna can
provide. It was not long before other immigrants
discovered and utilized the sauna as well.
In the Western UP, copper and Iron mining was
flourishing from the early to mid 1900s’. Hundreds of
large and small mines provided the metal that America
needed to grow. Mining towns like Calumet,
Ishpeming, White Pine, Hancock and Iron Mountain
provided the men needed to bring the ore out of the
ground. As a result the commercial UP sauna came
into being. The UP sauna was used after a shift in the
mine to ease the pain of hard rock mining. It also was
a place where a miner could remove all the sweat and
grime of the mine before going home.
Many of the Finnish immigrants worked in the woods
of the UP as loggers and lumberjacks. This was winter
work when Ice and snow were used to move white
pine logs to the spring landings. The UP sauna was
again used to ease the pain of physical labor and to
keep crews healthy. The Finns knew that a good
sauna was the best way to keep from getting sick and
if you did get ill then the UP sauna was the way to get
back on your feet.
Once the land was cleared many lumberjacks turned
to farming. Farmers made good money supplying food
to the mining towns and logging camps across the
UP. Behind most farm houses was a traditional UP
sauna. In some cases homes had the sauna built right
into the house itself. This was sometimes risky since a
sauna was known to catch fire from time to time. The
benefit of having an indoor UP sauna came when the
snows were deep and getting to and from the outdoor
sauna was not always pleasant.
UP sauna manufactures are still producing great
sauna stoves and building custom saunas. Owning
and using a UP sauna is just part of living north of the
Big Mac Bridge. It is fair to say that the UP sauna
tradition is still alive today and hopefully it always will.
UP Sauna
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