Mine: Central Mine, Central, MI 

Began → Central Mine → Became

From: 1854

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Produced: Copper Ore

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The Central Mine was opened in 1854 and closed in 1898. [MPN] The mine was located in Central, which is about 18 miles northeast of Calumet.

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1881. A large bar of copper weighing abut 3 1/2 tons was being conveyed from the Central Mine to the Mineral Range railroad depot at Calumet and which required ten horses to draw it. Just as the teams had turned from the country road to the depot, Felix Boulanger, the teamster, who was on the wagon driving the last three teams, was observed to fall off in front of the wagon and before the horses could be stopped the fore wheel of the wagon, the tire of which was six inches wide, had gone over his chest, literally crushing the breath out of his body. The total weight, including the wagon, was about 5.5 tons. Boulanger leaves a wife and four children. [DFP-1881-0510]