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Fifty-one men died in the Barnes-Hecker mine on Nov. 3, 1926, and 41 are still there. A memorial park at the site is dedicated Oct. 17, with centennial events through Nov. 3.
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Fifty-one men died when the Barnes-Hecker mine flooded on Nov. 3, 1926. Forty-one are still down there. The memorial park is dedicated...
Read storyThe Cliffs Shaft Mine headframes in Ishpeming are Egyptian Revival obelisks designed by a Chicago architect in 1919, and crews built them...
Read storyThe Chapin Mine sat under a cedar swamp and flooded relentlessly, so Iron Mountain got a 725-ton answer: the largest steam-driven pumping...
Read storyA knock in the rock a mile underground meant something to Copper Country miners. It was the tommyknockers, and the Cornish custom...
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