The Porter and the Warner , and a 10,000 acre cattle ranch. Today, Amasa still has three fine churches and a small business district, but the industry is gone. There is only one restaurant, and many of the apparent original stores buildings are vacant. 1893,Atkinson was located about 26 miles northwest of Crystal Falls. Sometime around the turn of the century, the saw mill in Atkinson closed, and a few years later another town was founded near the site, called Gibbs City .
Nothing remains today, but rusted railroad spurs.
There was never a postoffice, and it does not exist today. The hotels with their saloons that once existed here, were visited by lumberjacks during logging days, only two or three houses remain. At one time, Beachwood, had a bus arriving twice daily running to Iron River and Ironwood. It also contained Finnish, Bethany Lutheran, and Swedish Mission churches. There was a telegraph service, postoffice, general store, logging companies, livestock industry, poultry, and saw mill.