[11][6][10][12][13][14][9] In 1908, the construction of the Ahmeek Mining Company Office was completed, as designed by the architect Paul Macneil.

Attorney James A. Hamilton became the first postmaster of Ahmeek on February 5, 1909, the same year in which it was incorporated as a village.

[16][6][9] The village was plotted by two real estate agents from Calumet by the names of Faucett and Gunk.

[19] Ahmeek served as a critical stop for several transportation services, mostly around the early 20th century.

It served as a depot on the Mineral Range Railroad and the Copper Range Railroad and also had a streetcar station for the Houghton County Traction Company, which ran south from Houghton up to Ahmeek, and on north towards Mohawk.

[20] During the watershed moment that was the great Copper Country Strike of 1913–14, Ahmeek was the scene of regular tension and division in the Keweenaw, a key instance being on or about October 6, 1913, when Guy Wilkins, a clerk at the Ahmeek Mine supply office, was assaulted and shot after being confronted by a rogue mob.

The strike was the culmination of extensive labour unrest in the area, fueled in large part by unethical treatment by mining companies.

The strike brought the once-tranquil and calm Copper Country to violence, from which it would ultimately not recover.

Despite local officials' complaints about the lack of law and order, Judge Patrick Henry O'Brien, who presided over cases related to the violence, ruled that while the strikers were, indeed, in violation of the law, the mining companies themselves had hardly done anything to lessen the tension and had, instead, acted in ways only increasing "the bitterness and hostility" of the situation.

[10][14][13][9] Operations of the site under the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company ceased in 1931 under effects of the Great Depression.

[7] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.068 square miles (0.176 km2), or 42.52 acres, all land.

About 8.3% of families and 11.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen and 5.9% of those sixty five or over.