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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFL_penokee-iron-range-trail-gile-falls_Montreal-WI.html
Mining Upside DownThe large tailing piles across the river from Gile Falls are waste rock left from its mining at the Montreal Mine #5 Shaft.The Montreal Mine's vertical shaft extended to the depth of nearly one mile underground. Like rungs on a l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFK_roddis-line-lake-of-the-falls_Mercer-WI.html
The felling of Iron County's great stands of timber began in the late 1870's. The white pine was the first to be cut. Down the Turtle River and over Lake of the Falls, buoyant pine logs were floated to sawmills further south.Spring, when the river…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFJ_flambeau-trail-two-ways-to-go_Mercer-WI.html
In days of yesteryear, traveling south on the Flambeau Trail, you arrived at Big Turtle Lake (now Echo Lake) and Little Turtle Lake (now called either Grand Portage Lake or Tank Lake) to what is now Mercer. At Echo Lake you had a choice depending …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFH_flambeau-trail-continental-divide_Mercer-WI.html
You are now standing on the "Continental Divide", a geological demarcation line which splits Northern Wisconsin. North of "The Divide", rivers flow to Lake Superior and finally to the Atlantic Ocean. These waterways are full of rapids and waterfal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFG_flambeau-trail-little-finland_Hurley-WI.html
Jobs in the iron mines of the Penokee Range! Ample land to homestead! News of the good life on the Penokee Iron Range brought Finnish immigrants here as early as 1887. By 1900, native born Finns were the largest ethnic group seeking a new life …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMH_flambeau-trail-manitowish_Mercer-WI.html
Main streets developed at the cross roads of resources, transportation, and people. The town of Manitowish grew up on timber and the railroad.By the turn of the century, the "inexhaustible" stands of white pine had been cut from northern Wisconsin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUMG_penokee-iron-range-trail-historic-iron-county-courthouse_Hurley-WI.html
Ashland County was not willing to have its eastern most township, the Town of Vaughn, "secede" to form a new county in 1887.The Town incorporated Hurley's rich iron ore mines. The community's wealth and population were booming. Iron ore from the P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJN_penokee-iron-range-trail-plummer-mine_Montreal-WI.html
Plummer Mine Headframe Interpretive ParkDedicated to the iron miners and their families who helped build the Penokee Iron Range
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJM_penokee-iron-range-trail-plummer-location_Montreal-WI.html
Along this trail are the "ruins" of the buildings that made up the Plummer Mine Location. Each structure had a special function.Steam power, created at the boiler House, turned the Hoisting Engine. In the early 1920's, electricity from the Electri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUJJ_penokee-iron-range-trail-plummer-mine-geologic-layer-cake_Montreal-WI.html
Between 1 to 1 1/2 million years ago sediments of slate and cherty iron carbonates were laid down on top of the granite and greenstone bedrock covering this area. Molten lava flowed over the land, seeping into the great cracks on the surface creat…
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