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Keweenaw National Historical ParkThe Coppetown Mining Museum resides in the pattern shop located in the former Calumet & hecla industrial core.
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Keweenaw National Historical Park
Coppertown Mining Museum
Exhibits at the Coppertown Mining Museum help visitors experience the many aspects of Calumet
Exhibits at the Coppertown Mining Museum help visitors experience the many aspects of Calumet & Hecla's mining operations.
 

Calumet & Hecla's distance from manufacturing centers required the company to be self-reliant. In the pattern shop, skilled workers crafted wooden patterns that were used in the foundry that once stood next door to cast parts and tools need for mine operations.

Today, the Coppertown Mining Museum, a Keweenaw Heritage Site, is located in the former C&H Pattern Shop building. The museum features exhibits both on mining operations and life in a mining town.
Located at 101 Red Jacket Road, Calumet, MI.
Phone 906-337-4354.
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Miners pose outside the #5 Tamarack Mine shaft in this 1908 photograph by Adolph F. Isler. Keweenaw NHP Archives.  

Did You Know?
The Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan was home to one of our nation's first mineral rushes. Prospectors seeking copper travelled there in the middle 1840's, a few years before the "49'ers" sought gold out west. The story of this rush is told today at Keweenaw National Historical Park.

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Last Updated: November 27, 2006 at 10:27 EST