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Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #60 - Now the tourist center. [Image of a related structure to house #60. Could be an out house.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #75 first house on right going up the hill. [Image of a two story building with an enclosed porch. Snow drifts hang off the porch and oil tank. A television antenna is strapped to the chimney.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #75 first house on right going up the hill. [Side view of the building. May not be the same building as No Neg. 2008-08-20-13 as this building has one chimney and the porch is different.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #60 [Exterior view of the deteriorated living space of the home sitting on a very high stone foundation that includes a doorway.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #60 [Exterior view of the building built close to the road. Some of the windows are boarded up. A screen door still attached to the building is wide open.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #60 [Interior view of what is left of the kitchen area. A sad looking dog investigates the mess. Insulation is strewn on the floor and sink. Pieces of lumber, broken dishes and a discarded can of OFF bug repllent are laying on the floor.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #60 [Another interior view this building showing mattresses piled on top of each other. What appears to be tar paper hangs from the ceiling.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Central Mine Company Houses

Buildings, Dwellings, Housing, Single Family, Human Settlements, Cities and Towns, Company Towns, Historic Sites, Historic Mines House #60 [Another interior view of this building showing a narrow white door, a fuse box and tar paper? hanging from the ceiling. Daylight filters through the open cracks in the walls.]

Scanned: August 21, 2008


Quincy Mine

Metal Trade, Copper Industry and Trade, Copper Mines and Mining, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Front: Copper Country - The Keweenaw Peninsula, in Michigans Western Upper Peninsula, is rich in the lore of its colorful history. Copper was mined here by the earliest Indian civilizations. A succession of copper mining interests and techniques ensued, bringing colorful eras into being. Relics, artifacts, monuments and memorabilia attest to the ingenuity and dedication of those who coped with the life and times of an amazing period. Back: Quincy Mine - This famous mine, which included the worlds largest steam hoist, brought its ore to the surface from an inclined depth of 9, 260 feet, during its period of operation, 1920 to 1931.

Scanned: November 9, 2010


National Ave., Rockland, Michigan

Transportation, Roads, Historic Sites, Historic Mines, Buildings View on National Ave., Rockland, MI. after the big snow storm. [Shows the small town blanketed in snow, and some of the downtown buildings boardering the car-less street.]

Scanned: June 9, 2011