Calumet and Hecla

The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company built a substantial complex of buildings around the Red Jacket and their other mines early in the twentieth century. Those buildings, now the heart of the Keweenaw National Historical Park , are a truly impressive monument to the miners who toiled far beneath the surface in what was then the planet's deepest mine. This building, according to the site's map (available at the park but not on their website), was the Drill Shop.

Another picture of the formidable buildings at the Calumet and Hecla/Red Jacket mine site in Calumet, Michigan. This building was used for storing cores--samples made by drilling into the earth just to see what the rock contained, deep underground. Camera: Nikon D70 Photo by Joel Dinda

This door's in a bunker-like building near Calumet & Hecla's Red Jacket shaft, once the world's deepest mine at 8000 feet. I presume the building originally held explosives. Now part of the Keweenaw National Historical Park in Calumet, Michigan; shot from the Coppertown USA museum.

Another Calumet and Hecla building; downtown Calumet, Michigan. This building was used to maintain the drills used by the miners as part of their daily work. Part of the complex of buildings which forms the heart of the Keweenaw National Historical Park.

More details from the Calumet & Hecla Drill Building , downtown Calumet, Michigan. Part of the Keweenaw National Historical Park. That wall was obviously built of rubble. But such lovely rubble, and such a fine building they made with it.

Still another view of the Calumet & Hecla Drill Building, Calumet, Michigan. Part of the Keweenaw National Historical Park.

Calumet, Michigan. This building's directly beside the Red Jacket shaft.

What was once the office of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company; it's now home to the Keweenaw National Historical Park. Calumet, Michigan.