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Location: Ripley, MI - Quincy Stamp Mill (original)
The original Quincy stamp mill was located in Ripley, downhill from the Quincy mine location. Rock was moved to the mill by way of a tram railroad.
Began → Quincy Mill → Closed (Operations transferred to new mill)
From: 1848
Owned by: Quincy Mining Company
Produced: Refined Copper Ore
Method: Stamp mill
Railroad connection: Quincy Mine tram railroad down hill
Mine Source: Quincy
Until: 1887
Lifetime Production:
Notes
Stamp sand began to reduce navigation on Portage canal. The U.S. government required the mine to find a new location for their stamp mill. It was moved to Torch Lake.
Time Line
1893. The old stamp mill was dismantled. A new pumping station is erected there to bring water up to the mine and new railroad. [CRR]
Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI