Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Eagle Harbor, MI

Eagle Harbor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the north shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Eagle Harbor Township, Keweenaw County — Michigan's northernmost county.

Eagle Harbor is known in the Ojibwe language as Ginoozhegoong, meaning "place of the northern pike."

The earliest known non-indigenous settlement at Eagle Harbor was a log warehouse built in 1844, and the Eagle Harbor Mining Company was established there in 1845 to mine copper.

In the age of steamboats, Eagle Harbor's good landing made it a favorite stop for sailors — it sits about equally distant from Sault Ste. Marie and Duluth, Minnesota, and was the first stop for supplies for many boats on Lake Superior.

The Eagle Harbor Light was first built in 1851 and replaced in 1871 by the present red brick lighthouse, after a 14-foot-deep channel was dredged through the rocky ledge at the harbor entrance in the late 1870s.

The Eagle Harbor Light Station is a Michigan State Historic Site listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Congress transferred it to the Keweenaw County Historical Society in 1999, and it now operates as a museum complex while the Coast Guard still runs the light.

Eagle Harbor had just 69 residents at the 2020 census, down from 76 in 2010; it was first given official census-designated place boundaries for the 2010 census.

Eagle Harbor covers about 2.06 square miles (1.80 of land and 0.25 of water); highway M-26 passes through the community, which shares ZIP code 49950 with Mohawk.

Eagle Harbor is the birthplace of Guts Frisbee — the Healy brothers invented the game there in 1958, the International Frisbee Tournament dates to that same year, and Governor William Milliken proclaimed July 6, 1969, as Frisbee Day in Michigan to mark the tournament.

The Holy Protection Monastery, a Byzantine Catholic monastery founded in Eagle Harbor in 1983, is known for the fruit preserves sold under its Poorrock Abbey "Jampot" brand.