mining history
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An Iron Mining Company Hired a Famous Architect for a Piece of Machinery. Ishpeming Got Two Egyptian Obelisks.
The Cliffs Shaft Mine headframes in Ishpeming are Egyptian Revival obelisks designed…
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Iron Mountain’s Mine Would Not Stop Flooding. So They Built the Biggest Steam Engine in America, and It Never Left Town.
The Chapin Mine sat under a cedar swamp and flooded relentlessly, so…
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Miners in the U.P. Left Part of Their Lunch Underground for the Tommyknockers
A knock in the rock a mile underground meant something to Copper…
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Michigan’s Worst Mine Disaster Took 51 Men in 15 Minutes. One Man Outclimbed It.
The Barnes-Hecker mine near Ishpeming flooded in 15 minutes in 1926, killing…
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The Pasty Isn’t Just Lunch in the U.P. It’s a Heritage, a Mining Legacy, and an Argument Waiting to Happen
A Cornish miner’s lunch crossed an ocean, went down into the copper…
