AgTalk Home
AgTalk Home
Search Forums | Classifieds (84) | Skins | Language
You are logged in as a guest. ( logon | register )

Things to see and do in Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
View previous thread :: View next thread
   Forums List -> AgTalk CafeMessage format
 
BOGTROTTER
Posted 5/7/2021 06:34 (#8991569 - in reply to #8991474)
Subject: RE: Things to see and do in Upper Peninsula of Michigan?


Kingston,Mi
While the UP contains a lot of trees and rocks, some of them were very valuable and produced a lot of wealth. The copper from the copper range and the iron from the Menominee Iron Range both have historical monuments. Near Hancock Michigan is the Quincy Mine site with the largest monolithic concrete slab in the world at 3200 cubic yards (no saw cuts or breaks in the pour). In Iron Mountain there is a mining museum with the "Chapin Mine Pump", the largest compound steam engine in the United States which powered associated mine pumps to a depth of 1500 feet. It pumped at 10 rpm and 3400 gallons per minute.

To travel from The Soo to Houghton-Hancock (where the Quincy mine historical site is) you can travel the "Seney Stretch" on M-28, reported to be the longest straight portion of road east of the Mississippi at 24 miles between Seney and Shingleton. I have suffered ridicule on this forum for pointing out that this stretch of highway is also one constant grade between these towns.

Edited by BOGTROTTER 5/7/2021 06:42




Attachments
----------------
Attachments Quincy_Mine[1] (105KB - 62 downloads)
Attachments Chapin_Mine_Steam_Pump_Engine[1] (91KB - 60 downloads)
Top of the page Bottom of the page


Jump to forum :
Search this forum
Printer friendly version
E-mail a link to this thread

(Delete cookies)