The Cornish Pumping Engine and Mining Museum is
located at 300 Kent St., Iron Mountain, Mich. The museum
is open during the summer (starting in June). Admission is
$8 for adults, $7 for seniors and veterans, $5 for children
ages 6-17 and free for children 5 and under. For more
information, visit menomineemuseum.com/cornish-pump-
museum or call (906) 774-1086.
tall steel head frame surrounding the engine was scrapped.
Locals were able to save the engine, however, in part because
it would have been cost-prohibitive to cut it up.
A-C repaired and re-painted the engine in 1948, and in
1981, it was designated a National Historic Site. The Cornish
Pumping Engine Museum in Iron Mountain opened to the
public two years later.
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Museum opened in 1983
If you go:
These wintry A-C scenes were provided by, clockwise from left, Jim Stolz, Herman Zoellick, Nathan
Nelson, Maxwell Eckardt (mixing feed), Colby Christman and Wes Lam. Lam's CA was his high-school
project almost 20 years ago.
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