Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster is a memorial in Ely Township, Marquette, Michigan. Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster is situated nearby to the quarry Barnes and Hecker Mine, as well as near Chase Mine.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diorite and West Ishpeming.
Diorite
Hamlet
Diorite is an unincorporated community in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Ely Township. As an unincorporated community, Diorite has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own. Diorite is situated 2½ miles west of Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster.
West Ishpeming
Hamlet
West Ishpeming is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,552 at the 2020 census. West Ishpeming is situated 4 miles east of Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster.
Ishpeming
Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ishpeming is a city in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. Located in the Upper Peninsula, the population was 6,140 at the 2020 census, less than it was in the 1950s and 1960s when the iron ore mines employed more workers.
Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Site of Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster, November 3, 1926. In memory of the 51 men who died digging red ore deep in the earth. 41 remain here to dig ore for eternity.”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Ely Township, Marquette, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.5031° or 46° 30′ 11″ northLongitude
-87.77904° or 87° 46′ 45″ westInception
August 31st, 2002Open location code
86RJG63C+69OpenStreetMap ID
node 9099240497OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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