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Face in the Rock

Au Train, MI

A weathered human face carved into the sandstone along Lake Superior has become one of the Upper Peninsula's stranger shoreline landmarks. Local interpretation connects the carving with a nineteenth-century story involving a French voyageur and an Ojibwe leader, although the exact origin of the carving is not firmly documented; reaching it requires a shoreline walk.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: michigan.org/article/road-trip/one-tank-road-trip-central-upper-peninsula

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