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The Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine, also known as the Cornish Pump, is a steam-driven pump located at the corner of Kent Street and Kimberly Avenue in Iron Mountain, Michigan, United States. It is the largest reciprocating steam-driven engine ever built in the United States. [3]
Iron Mountain is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Michigan. The population was 7,518 at the 2020 census , down from 7,624 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Located in the state's Upper Peninsula , Iron Mountain was named for the valuable iron ore found in the vicinity.
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.
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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Millie Hill bat cave (also known as Millie Mine bat cave) is an abandoned iron mine in Iron Mountain, Michigan that is now one of the largest bat breeding colonies in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The vertical mine shaft is blocked by a steel grate, which prevents entry by humans but allows bats to enter and exit freely. [ 4 ]
Dan Rittenhouse, 60, and brother Francis, 73, hung the 12ft wide sign on their smokestack in Iron Mountain, Michigan. Dan Rittenhouse / SWNS Dan and his brother put up the red and white banner on ...
The Iron Mountain Motel was constructed in 1954-55 by contractors Oscar Leaf and Calvin Calvini for Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fornetti, [2] whose family owned the Moon Lake Cabins north of Iron Mountain. The Fornettis operated the motel until the later 1970s, changing the name to Downtown Motel by 1967.