Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula (Geographic Keyword)
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From Riches to Ruin: The Delaware Mine's Compressor House (2025)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The second season of Michigan Technological University’s excavations at the Delaware Mine, a copper mine located in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, focused primarily on the compressor house. Built in an attempt to allow the mine to more efficiently mine copper, the compressor house was in use for less than a decade before Delaware’s underground mining ceased. The excavation’s central aim...