Table Tent Articular *** YOOPER LAND GODS COUNTRY *** The UP contains 16,377 SQ Miles of land 320 miles Long and about 125 Miles wide The UP supplied 90 % of USA Copper by 1860'S And the Largest Supplier of Iron Ore in the 1890' S The UP has 1,700 MI of Shore Line on the Great Lakes Also 4,300 Inland Lakes and 12,000 miles Streams and Rivers The UP also has 25 of the most Beautiful Waterfalls in the US The second and third Oldest City's in the United States Saul ST MARIE *EST 1641 and ST IGNACE * EST 1671 In the border conflict known as the Toledo War in 1837 The UP was given to Michigan to settle the conflict The UP became a US Territory in the summer of 1783 The UP is the number 10 of all Travel Destinations *** LUCKY UPPER PENINSULA DOLLAR ***