Copper Falls Powder
It sits secluded high atop Petheric Hill, deep within the thick forest found along its rugged slopes. No road, or two-track, or even a trail pays it a visit. Over a hundred and fifty years ago it was...
View ArticleMadison Powder
The Madison Mine is one of the dozens of fissure mines scattered across the Keweenaw’s northern reaches that produced very little copper and even less interest. Organized in 1853 the mine attempted to...
View ArticleAhmeek Powder
While most mines utilized an identical set of surface buildings for each shaft along their property, they usually only used a centralized powder house to serve them all. But this layout always...
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As I noted yesterday, most mines utilized only one powder house that served all its shafts. In some cases a mine would have a second powder house to serve shafts set apart from the majority of the...
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Powder-palooza
Thought I'd wrap up this mini powder house tour we've been on lately with a rundown of all the explosive storage structures I've profiled over the years, and even a few I haven't. These building's are...
View ArticleA House that Baltic Built
Of all the types of ruins that I stumble across during my travels, perhaps the most impressive have always been the powder house. Built to safely store a mines supply of explosives, these bulky...
View ArticleAnother House That Baltic Built
While it was amazing to me that there were in fact two powder houses at the old Baltic mine it was even more incredible to find yet another such structure sitting just a few hundred feet away from the...
View ArticleA Champion Powder House
I have heard many rumors about the Champion’s powder house and its apparent “in plain sight” location that manages still to keep its location quite secret. After some more specific information from a...
View ArticleAnother Champion Powder House
In what has become a trend as of late, the Champion Mine had not just one powder house to store its explosives, but in fact had two placed no more then a few hundred feet of each other. While the first...
View ArticleIn the Unlikeliest of Places
It sits alone and secluded within a vast sea of asphalt and concrete, a sprawling parking lot serving serving Calumet’s expanded elementary complex. A century ago that school building was no where to...
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