QUESTION: Peter White once noted that the Ishpeming area could be called “The Great Divide.” What was he referring to?

A. The rivalries between the Italian and Scandinavian immigrants.

B. The geological divide where the Carp River flows into Lake Superior and the Escanaba into Lake Michigan

C. The effort to create a separate county from Marquette for the iron mining areas.

D. Lake Bancroft, which separated north and south Ishpeming from each other.

ANSWER: B