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Michigan Smelter - Located west of Houghton near Cole's Creek on the Keweenaw waterway. Quincy Smelter - Located east of Hancock in Ripley on the Keweenaw Waterway; Tamarack/Osceola Smelter - In Dollar Bay; White Pine mine smelter - Was mostly closed in 1982 but continued to process copper and scrap material until 1984 [1]
Osceola Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... West Tamarack is an unincorporated community in the township. Geography
Tamarack mine is a copper mine located in Osceola Township, Houghton County, north of Calumet, Michigan. The first shaft was started in 1882 and five shafts were eventually mined. [ 1 ] In 1966 seven-year-old Ruth Ann Miller fell into shaft #4 and a rescue was impossible.
View of Lake Superior from Brockway Mountain, near Copper Harbor in Keweenaw County The peninsula measures about 150 miles (240 km) in length and about 50 miles (80 km) in width at its base. The ancient lava flows of the Keweenaw Peninsula were produced during the Mesoproterozoic Era as a part of the Midcontinent Rift between 1.096 and 1.087 ...
He also served as vice-president of several other mines, as well as president of the Calumet State Bank and a director of the First National Bank of Calumet. [4] On November 24, 1886, Hoatson married Cornelia Chenowyth [2] of Rockland. [2] The couple had six children: [2] Gussie, Calvin Dean, Chester, James Ramsey, Gertrude, and Grace Lorimer. [5]
Laurium (/ ˈ l ɔː r i ə m /; LAW-ri-um or / ˈ l eɪ r i ə m / LAIR-i-um) is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan, in the center of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The population was 1,977 at the 2010 census. The village is mostly surrounded by Calumet Township, with a small portion bordering Schoolcraft ...
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The Calumet Unit of the Keweenaw National Historical Park includes many sites in and around the villages of Calumet and Laurium, which are not ghost towns but operating human communities that have survived the shutdown of their parent employer, the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, in 1968. By digging shafts into the rock, the men and owners of ...