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The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra Burra Mine is located in the Copper Basin geological region, and extracted over 15 million tons (14 million metric tons) of copper ore during its 60 years of operation between 1899 and 1959.
The Ducktown Basin Museum was established in 1978 by a group of local citizens intent on preserving the legacy of the Copper Basin. The museum was moved to the building that formerly housed the headquarters of the Tennessee Copper Company at the Burra Burra Mine in 1982. It features exhibits on the history of the mining operations in the basin ...
Ducktown is located in a geological region known as the Copper Basin, and was the center of a major copper-mining district from 1847 until 1987. The district also produced iron, sulfur and zinc as byproducts. [7] Ducktown was the birthplace of Rockabilly Hall of Famer, Stan Beaver. [citation needed]
The main lodge, most of the buildings and 105 acres (42 ha) were offered for sale, while the remaining acreage became part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Roger Jakubowski purchased the camp in 1985 for $911,000. [4] It is now owned by Texas real estate magnate Harlan Crow, who purchased it in 1994 when Jakubowski went bankrupt. [5]
With 131 contributing buildings this late-19th and early-20th century historic district includes vernacular farmhouses in a variety of styles, barn complexes, a stone 1816 schoolhouse, Skenewood Estate, the Stable Inn properties, Germain property, "Kenjockety," Barber's Point Lighthouse, and Camp Dudley, the oldest continuing boy's camp.
This list of museums in Tennessee encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Contents: Counties in New York Albany – Allegany – Bronx – Broome – Cattaraugus – Cayuga – Chautauqua – Chemung – Chenango – Clinton – Columbia – Cortland – Delaware – Dutchess (Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck) – Erie – Essex – Franklin – Fulton – Genesee – Greene – Hamilton – Herkimer – Jefferson – Kings – Lewis – Livingston – Madison – Monroe ...
Today a county museum. 25: Camp Olmsted: Camp Olmsted: November 23, 1982 : 114 Bayview Ave. Cornwall-on-Hudson: Summer camp built in 1900 to allow children of New York's Five Points neighborhood to get fresh Hudson Valley air for a few weeks. 26