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Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigans Copper Country

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During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of Americas first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the regions vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote locationand work long hours in dangerous conditionscompanies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town life in the form of affordable housing, schools, health-care facilities, and churches.

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Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigans Copper Country 2010, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816665679

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Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country 2010, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816665662

Hardcover