Quincy Mining Company

MINES AND MINING COPPER
Source:
1. Lake Superior News and Miners’ Journal, July 11, 1846. Two months in the Copper Region by Charles Whittlesey. Revised from first publication in National Magazine. February, 1846.
See also: RG 70-5 Records of the Department of Commerce, Securities Bureau. Securities Applications, Box 257, [...]

German Prisoners of War (WWII)

PRISONERS OF WAR – WORLD WAR II
See RG 66-73 – Records of Ionia County
Box 6 – Records relating to Emergency Farm Labor Program and Prisoner of War Camp, 1944-1945.
See also PICTORIAL HISTORY OF MICHIGAN, Vol. II, page 220. For view of prisoners of war (German) lined up for inspection at Fort Custer.

Pig Iron

IRON – PIG IRON FROM BOGS OF SOUTHERN MICHIGAN, 1840 ERA
Source:
1. Blois, Gazetteer of Michigan. P.41 notes iron production at Hillsdale, Berrien, SE sect. Of Livingston, S. sect. Of Branch, SW section of Cass, Wayne, Ottawa, and extensive beds near Kalamazoo.
2. See U.S. Census of Population, U.S. Census, [...]

Mineral lands

MINERAL LANDS IN MICHIGAN
Source:
1.    CHECKLIST  of U.S. Public Documents, 1789-1909…Congress.  See first session, December 3, 1849-September 3, 1850.  Serial #551, Vol. 3.  Report on Mineral Lands in Michigan.  See same session, Serial #571, Vol. 3, (pt. 3, 5)

Iron Furnaces

Source:
1.     MICHIGAN HISTORY – 11:164-166; in Delta County, 4:461-474; in Gogebic County 6:  331, 332; in Gogebic Range 9:371-377; in Marquette County 3: 251, 252; 5:150-166; 6:306, 307; 11:191-207 views of minesll:  193, 196, 199, 201, 203, 205.  Dunathan, Clint, “Fayette” (December 1951) 41:204.  See also 35:505-6 “Fayette Furnace”
2.     Vertical file:  Iron.  MICHIGAN’S [...]

1913 Copper Strike

RG 46 Woodbridge N. Ferris Papers: Seeberville Affiar
RG 64-24, Lot 10 (7-21-7) Box 1
Acc. 46 Executive Office
Streeter 6868
Michigan History Magazine.    V.43 (1959), p. 294-314
V.54 (1970), p. 275-292
MINES AND MINING  – COPPER STRIKE, 1906, 1913
See research card – Mines and Mining
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Finish complaint against America in Rockland Mine Strike.
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Old Militia.  Mobs.  Strikes, etc.  Several folders re to [...]

Copper Mining and Discovery

Copper Boulder – See Ontonagon Copper Boulder
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B503 old
Indian Affairs.  1836-1865.  Re:  copper mining on Kewenaw peninsula in 1851.
ONTONAGON COPPER BOULDER
Source:
1.    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.  Report of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1895.  Pages 1021-1030.  Moore, Charles, The Ontonagon Copper Bowlder in the U.S. National Museum.”
2.    Schoolcraft, H. R. NARRATIVE JOURNAL OF THE [...]