Newport Hill

Newport Hill is a Michigan historical marker in Ironwood, Gogebic County, dedicated 1980.

Across from No. 1 Newport Heights, Ironwood

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On this site, on October 8, 1871, geologist Raphael Pumpelly of Harvard University discovered one of the iron ore formations that created Gogebic County’s “boom era.” The Newport Mine, named for Pumpelly’s home in Rhode Island, began operations in 1884—the Geneva Mine in 1887. By the closing of the mines in 1966, 255 million tons of iron ore had been shipped from Gogebic County, and 67 million for adjoining Iron County Wisconsin.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1855 · Colton's Wisconsin (1855) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Railroad & Commercial Atlas Of The United States (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Burritt's Sectional Minnesota (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Chapman's new sectional map of Wisconsin (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
Asher & Adams' Michigan. (University of Michigan Library)

Railroad & Commercial Atlas Of The United States, 1869, covering the location of Newport Hill, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Railroad & Commercial Atlas Of The United States, 1869, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Newport Hill

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