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Organized in Ishpeming in
1852, owned by the Iron Cliffs Company. Owned 2,200 acres.
The principal mine was located between the New York and Lake
Superior mines, also notes as just north of M-28 (Division Street)
east of Seventh Street. Iron ore shipped out in 1855 to
furnaces "down the lakes". This was the first Ishpeming mine. [EHMT]
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Reached by the Iron
Mountain Railroad in 1855. [EHMT]
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This mine developed two
other mines, the
Cleveland Lake and the
Cleveland Hematite.
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In 1880 a new engine
house was begun, 80' x 44' with a steel cable wound on 6-foot drum
hoists. The Cleveland Cliffs offices moved from the Cleveland
Mine area on Division Street to the Cliffs Shafts area n Lake
Bancroft in 1899. [EHMT]
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