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Redridge Steel Dam |
Industries, Engineering, Water |
Notice for any researcher, --the walkway over the pillway of the logdamin the right background. Also notice the rail tracks down below the dam and running paralell to the upper tracks. This lower track connected with the upper track by a witch near the old Club House north gate (NOT the east gate). In those days railroad tracks seemed to be everywhere, and the miniature locomotives spewed hot cinders that each fall started many forest fires. Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Redridge Steel Dam |
Industries, Engineering, Water |
The valve and launder that lead from the log dam across the Salmon Front River at Redridge is shown here as it neared the steel dam. At that point a large hol was cut in the steel to permit the water through to another launder that took it to the Atlantic Mill at Redridge. Water for the Baltic Mill was piped by two five foot diameter pipes to the Baltic Mill. The Atlantic Mill closed in September 1912, the Baltic closed in Sept. of 1922. Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Redridge - Town Scenes |
Buildings, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Districts |
Finish Evangelical Church; Dr. H.E. Johnson's following Company Doctors: Machamara, Senilac, Groomes, Johnson, Hillmer. The Redridge School and the "Skating Rink Shack." [Image shows town scene at Redridge, Michigan.] Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Sno-go Snow Blowing |
Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Seasons, Winter, |
The former August Raisanen's house with a sno-go blowing drifted snow. Total of 355.5 inches. The worst winter on record 1978-1979. [Plow truck works to move snow from driveway during winter.] Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Redridge - Town Scenes |
Buildings, Historic Sites, |
A panoramic view of Redridge, Michigan taken from the trestle of a bridge over the Redridge Steel Dam in the summer of 1916. This view especially points out the Congregational Church and its parsonage in the forground, In the middle is the Baltic Mining Companys Boarding House. The Atlantic Mining Companys Boarding house was located just across from the big school and it burned down in a blizzard on January 27, 1939. These buildings in the foreground burned down in the great holocaust of May 3, 1937 in which the parsonage and church burned as did the Catholic church and several other structures and homes. The fire in 1937 was caused by lack of electrical power to run the fire pump at the Baltic Mill because the power was shut off to permit men to paint the steel poles of the power line from Atlantic Mine to Freda. It was on a Sunday. This view of Redridge is only a small portion of a town of 1,100 population in 1900 through 1916. In the Great Depression days it dwindled to less than 500 and now it has only 30 souls. The town boasted three stores, -- A "Candy Store", Atlantic Mining Companys Store and the Baltic Mining Companys store, as well as a saloon, the Blue Ribbon, It had three major bands: the Big Band, the Junior Band, and a Hawaiian Orchestra. Herb Wilkings, the son of the Band-master of the Big Band went on later to eventually become one of the bandmasters of a Hollywood movie band, as well as guest artist of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum Bailey Circuses. Another young man, Robert Kneebone, became a wealthy philanthropist and international diplomat in social affairs and progress. Lucille W Brinkman became the first graduate woman metallurgist on the west coast according to a writeup in the San Francisco-Call Bulletin in 1947. Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Lake Shore in Redridge, Michigan |
Buildings, Water, |
Lakeshore scene in Redridge in 1914. Rail road tracks are of Atlantic Rail Road. Mill is to right of photograph. Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Lake Shore in Redridge, Michigan |
Buildings, Water, |
This panoramic view of Lake Superior and the Walter Simonson home and other buildings on the shore of Lake Superior in Redridge was taken from the porch of the Frederick Coggin mansion on a bluff overlooking this view. Between the Simonson home and the Coggin mansion was a large level plain and swamp that later was developed in the town's Baseball field where for many years hotly contested games were played. In the middle is the Walter Simonson home. To the right was a chicken coop, that later was renovated and improved into the Mr and Mrs Arne Sten summer home (and for many years their regular home). Mrs. Sten was the former Adele Simonson. From 1892 on through 1912 the Atlantic Railroad trains and cars ran over numerous trackage here with the miniature locomotives belching smoke and train's bell ringing and whistles blowing. It was typical of a young booming town in the milling of copper and thriving merrily along. Frederick Coggin was the Atlantic Mining Company's Superintendent of operations here. Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Redridge - Town Scenes |
Buildings, Water, |
The Redridge fire hose cart station with ladders. [Small shed housing fire fighting equipment in front of a church in Redridge, Michigan.] Scanned: September 16, 2013 |
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Redridge, Michigan |
Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Historic Sites, Historic Districts, |
Central part of Redridge, Michigan in June of 1940. Notice ruins of the old Atlantic Mining Company's Boarding house which burned down on January 27, 1939 in a blizzard. It was once occupied by Mr and Mrs John Mikkel and Mr and Mrs August Kaisaer. [View of homes with fenced in yards in Redridge, Michigan.] Scanned: September 17, 2013 |
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Redridge Fire |
Disasters, Fires, Historic Sites, Historic Districts, |
Five fire departments stood by but had no water. Woodman Hall on fire, the Catholic church was next. The Hurontown fire department put out the fire. Scanned: September 17, 2013 |