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

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