View of Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine facing east

Chapin Mine with Chapin Location, 1882: This view of Iron Mountain’s Chapin Mine, facing east, was taken in 1882. Notice that the Chapin Location, located on what is now the east side of the Chapin Pit (to the left in this photograph), has grown significantly. Numerous tramways come from various shafts at the foot of Millie Hill where the iron ore was dumped into waiting ore cars. Just to the right of the small building in the center foreground is an early steam locomotive, coal tender and caboose. The darker building with white-trimmed windows directly above the locomotive may have been the Chapin sawmill. Note how the land has been cut-over and the stumps left to rot. [Menominee Range Historical Foundation Museum]