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The Delaware Mine is located off U.S. Highway 41, 12 miles (19 km) in Grant Township, Keweenaw County, south of Copper Harbor, Michigan and is a Keweenaw Heritage Site. [1] [2] The Delaware Copper Mine provides tours of one of the oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw, [2] dating back to 1847. The mine had five shafts, with the deepest reaching ...
Pennsylvania Copper Mine - Delaware, Keweenaw County Petherick mine - Keweenaw County Pewabic mine - Pewabic, Houghton County; one shaft north of the Quincy Mine ; acquired by Quincy in 1891 and renamed to the Quincy #6 shaft
Delaware Mine entrance. The Delaware Copper Mine is located off U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), 12 miles (19 km) south of Copper Harbor, Michigan. [4] The Delaware Copper Mine provides tours of one of the oldest copper mines in the Keweenaw, [4] dating back to 1846. [18] The mine had five shafts, with the deepest reaching 1,400 feet (430 m). [18]
The peninsula is part of Michigan's Copper Country region, as the region was home to the first major copper mining boom in the United States. Copper mining was active in this region from the 1840s to the 1960s. The peninsula is bisected by the Keweenaw Waterway, a partly natural, partly artificial waterway serving as a canal.
Delaware is an unincorporated community in Grant Township in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It was established in 1846 as a copper mining town. It is located in the Keweenaw Peninsula, ten miles south of Copper Harbor and around twenty five miles north of Calumet. When the town was first settled it had a population of one ...
The county is part of Michigan's Copper Country region, an area where copper mining was prevalent from the 1840s to the 1960s. Polished native copper nugget from Keweenaw County. Keweenaw County copper mines were important producers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [5] Haven Falls, on Haven Creek near Lac La Belle
The Keweenaw Copper Company built the first Keweenaw Central Railroad in 1906 to revitalize mines in the peninsula. At Lac La Belle the Delaware Mine in the 1880s had built a narrow-gauge railroad and a stamp mill. This was used as the basis for their railroad. [5] Owned by Keweenaw Copper Company. [6]
Lac La Belle (/ ˈ l æ k ˈ l ə b ɛ l / LACK lə-BELL; French: "Lake The Beautiful") is a small unincorporated community in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The town was originally the site of a stamping plant for the copper mines of the Keweenaw, specifically the Mendota Mine and the Delaware Mine. Copper-bearing rock was ...