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Wisconsin History Magazine. Archived from the original on August 3, 2008 (Archived August 3, 2008) Captain Cram's reports were printed in: Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution from the Senate in relation to the survey to ascertain and designate the boundary-line between the state of Michigan and the ...
Approximately 325 million tons of this ore was mined from around 40 individual mines between 1877 and 1967. Iron mines of the era exploited the "natural" (soft) iron-rich ores in a 15 kilometer-long stretch in the central portion of the range straddling the Michigan-Wisconsin state line.
Hurley is located on the Montreal River, the border between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The city is on U.S. Highway 2 (US 2), and is the northern terminus of US 51, and is about 18 miles (29 km) south of Lake Superior. Hurley had its origins in the iron mining and lumbering booms of the 1880s. [4]
Name County Years Material Coordinates Adventure mine: Ontonagon: 1850–1920: copper: Alabastine Mine: Kent: 1907– gypsum: Arcadian mine: Houghton: 1898–1908: copper
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An intense rivalry was harboured between the two towns, and a renewed election took place on April 2, 1861, during which a majority again voted to move the county seat to Dodgeville, where it remains today. [13] As lead mining declined in Mineral Point, zinc mining and smelting became important new industries. Zinc ore was discovered with ...
The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine in Negaunee, Michigan, extracting resources from the Marquette Iron Range.The first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, [3] Jackson Mine was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1]
They were introduced in different years based on local decisions. Michigan adopted Central Standard Time throughout the state effective September 18, 1885. [1] [2] [3] In 1915, Detroit changed to Eastern time to be on the same time zone as New York, [4] followed by most of the rest of the state in 1931. [5]