This is the Carpenter Mine in Crystal Falls, shown as a busy industrial complex with a tall headframe, ore-handling buildings, rail tracks and stacks of cut timber in the foreground. The photo itself carries a 1914 copyright and a credit to Iron Range Studio of Iron River, placing it right at the start of the mine’s working life.
State and geological records describe the Carpenter Mine as an Iron County iron-ore operation opened in 1913, with ore shipments beginning in 1914 and continuing through 1928.
If you have family ties to Crystal Falls, what do you remember hearing about the mines — or the work that came with them?
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