For the third day in a row, I found a plant with a smokestack. But this one is long abandoned. (The previous two smokestacks were a glass plant and a paper mill.)
This mill processed ore from the Quincy Copper Mine in Hancock, MI.
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| Street View, Sep 2008 |
There is also an abandoned hydraulic dredge, Quincy Dredge #2.
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| Andrew Nold, Oct 2019 |
I was "cruising" MI-26 with street view from Hancock, MI, to find this filling station. I did not find it. But I did find Quincy Mill.
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| Jim roepke posted Mason Motors is Situated on highway M26 north of Hancock and Dollar Bay, Michigan. It is a popular roadside attraction and photo opportunity. |
Back to the copper mill.
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| WaterfallsOfTheKeweenaw |
This 175-foot [53m] tower was built in 1916 for the boiler house." [TakeMyTrip]
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| MikeOnline, 11th of 22 photos "Construction began in 1888 and over time was built a boarding house, dock, cistern, six other buildings a pump and boiler house and a railway connecting the mill to Quincy Mine. The facility was completed in 1890 with two stamps, and a third added upon opening. Within two years, an additional two stamps were added. "A second mill was already required, however, and Mill 2 was completed just north of Mill 1 in 1900. A new boiler and pump house were built and in 1916, a large smokestack was added. "Mill 2 was closed in 1922, and the equipment modernized in Mill 1 between 1929 and 1930. "By 1931, the effects of the depression were being felt and Quincy was horsed to close the mine and mill. "In 1938, copper prices were improving and Quincy was able to refurbish and reopen the mill. This wouldn't last long, however, as the end of World War II horsed the mine and mills to close for good." |
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| TakeMyTrip "The dredge was put into use on the lake to suck up sand deposits that had been dumped here from the stamp mill during the previous decades. Advancements in technology gave the mining company the ability to reclaim more copper from the sand, making it profitable to re-stamp the ore. The dredge was first built in 1914 and used on Lake Linden, then was sold to Calumet & Hecla in 1951 and moved here (when it was renamed the Quincy Dredge #2, replacing an earlier dredge). It was used until it sank in 1967." |
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| miroadtrip "The Quincy Mining Company purchased a large plot of land on Torch Lake in the mid-to-late 1800s to serve as the site of its new mill after federal regulations forced the closure of its mill on Portage Lake." [Dumping sand into Portage Lake was a navigation issue, not an environmental issue. That explains why there were federal regulation concerns in the 1800s.] "Most of the buildings were demolished fairly soon after production ceased, but the newer addition to Mill #1 was completed around 1919, and the turbine house that was completed sometime around 1923 still remains today." |
A stamper:
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