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The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum is a former iron mine, now a heritage museum, located on Euclid Street between Lakeshore Drive and Spruce Street in Ishpeming, Michigan.The museum, operated by "Marquette Range Iron Mining Heritage Theme Park Inc.", celebrates the history of the Marquette Iron Range.
The Marquette Iron Range was designated as a Michigan registered historic site in 1957, listed as S-0035. [4] The Cliffs Shaft Mine Museum in Ishpeming and the Michigan Iron Industry Museum in Negaunee each celebrate the history of the iron ore deposit and its miners. [8] [9] A 47-mile-long (76 km) [10] hiking trail from Republic to Marquette ...
The first portion of this engine house was built in 1880–1882, and served as the mine's primary hoist engine house until the ore was depleted in the early 1890s. The Cleveland Mine was eventually merged with other iron companies in the area, including the Jackson Mine and the Iron Cliffs Mine, to form the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. 6
The Lake Superior & Ishpeming's historic main line operates on a relatively steep grade, called "The Hill", from Marquette to the iron mines. The steepest gradient is 1.63%. [6] Because of the location of the LS&I's Marquette docks, the railroad must cross the Dead River. The trestle is 565 feet (172 m) long and 104 feet (32 m) high.
Iron Will: Cleveland Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011. Rodgers, Bradley A. "The Naval Suppression of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Mining Strikes of 1865." Extract from master's thesis, East Carolina University, 1990.
The trail, which has a comparative change in elevation of 1,000 feet (300 m) (steep for the U.S. Midwest) covers much of the length of the Marquette Iron Range, a historically and commercially significant range of hematite and magnetite mined for more than 150 years as iron ore. The trail celebrates the geological and human heritage of the ...
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Jackson Mine† Northwest of intersection of Business M-28 and Cornish Town Road Negaunee: February 18, 1956: Marquette City Hall† 204 Washington Street: Marquette: October 7, 1974: Marquette County Courthouse† 400 Third Street Marquette: August 6, 1976: Marquette County Poor House (demolished) Division Street and Pioneer Road Marquette ...