Garden City Mine

26
Apr

Soda Cans

Often when exploring the woods and fields of the Keweenaw, we stumble upon trash. Some might say that everything we feature on these pages is trash, and I suppose technically it is. But here we aren’t talking about poor rock walls or still smokestacks. We’re talking about old bottles, buckets, pots, pans, plates, and even cars and refrigerators. Some of the trash is recent, but others can date back decades or more. While new trash is just that – trash – these older finds become something else entirely. It becomes a look into the past. It becomes a part of history.

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17
May

Garden City Dam

Garden City Mine | Dam (11) Comment

It was the 1840’s when the Copper Country’s first copper rush came ashore. It was long the banks of the Eagle River, just a few miles inland from the current town of Eagle River now sits, where the area’s first mine started sinking shafts. The Lake Superior Mining Company operated the mine as part of a 40,000 acre tract around the mouth of the Eagle River. Soon other companies followed, and for the next few decades numerous other mines tried to make their mark on the area. One of these was the Garden City Mine.

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