HUBBELL

Region: Keweenaw Peninsula

Scattered around the Hubbell area are massive, mysterious-looking reminders that this was once an important copper processing region. The photo shows the remains of a stamping plant. The ore arrived by railroad cars from the mines up on Keweenaw's central spine and left the region as pure copper ingots.

Founded: 1894
Population: 1,105
The long Torch Lake waterfront close to many mines made Hubbell a logical location for several stamping mills, where heavy stamping machines crushed copper-bearing rock to free its copper. Water flushed out the copper and rock onto mill equipment designed to separate copper from rock. The Quincy, Osceola, Tamarack, and Ahmeek mines all had stamp mills here, and C&H also had a smelter.

Though copper mining in the Keweenaw ceased years ago, an old mining building between Torch Lake and M-26 just north of Hubbell houses a major local employer, PCI, which recovers scrap copper and refines it for special industrial uses.

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PLACES AROUND HUBBELL TO

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