“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.”