Mine: Jackson Mine, Negaunee, MI

Began → Jackson Mine → Cambria-Jackson (part), South Jackson (part) and then Mather Mine (1943)

Operated for 76 years.

From: 1848

Location: All of Sec 1 except N 1/2-N 1/2-NW of T47N-R27W

Owned by: Jackson Iron Company. Purchased by the Iron Cliffs Company about 1864. Merged into Cleveland-Cliffs Company in 1905.

Produced: Iron Ore, soft, red siliceous.

Method: Open pit and tunnels.

Railroad connection: DSS&A to Marquette dock, then LS&I to Presque Isle dock.

Until: 1924

Lifetime Production: 4,357,256 tons between 1848 and 1924.

Photo Info: Two old photos of the Jackson Mine, which was open pit at this location. In the 2nd photo, note the overhead trestle which can be scene in several published maps of the mine. Also, a very old steam powered switch engine with a vertical boiler. Top, [MINARC].

Notes

Originally included all of Section 1, T47N-R26W but NW 1/2-N 1/2-NW of Sec. 1 is now part of Cambria-Jackson Mine.

The mine is located northwest of M-28 and Cornish Town Road. [CMS-1878]

Also known as the Jackson Location.

Jackson Iron Company. Section 1, 47-26

Time Line

1849. The schooner Fur Trader came down on the 19th with 213 iron blooms, 13 tons and 120 bars of iron - 2 1/2 tons, all from the Jackson Iron Works. [DFP-1849-0710]

1850. The men associated with the Jackson Mine create the Iron Bay and Carp River Plank Road Company, to establish a plank road for transport of ore. [DSS] The road was not successful.

1854. The Jackson Mine, along with the Cleveland Mine laid a strap railroad and formed the Iron Mountain Railway Company to transport ore.  There was also a plank road by a similar name. The IMRC built to the Jackson dock in Marquette. The Cleveland company also built a dock at the foot of Superior Street. [DSS]

1864. Purchased by the Iron Cliffs Company, which was affiliated with the C&NW. They begin sending Jackson ore to Escanaba on the C&NW instead of to the Jackson dock in Marquette. The Jackson dock closes. [DSS]

1868. This mine is now served by both the C&NW and M&O with the M&O receiving Jackson ore for local furnaces. [DSS]

1903. The DSS&A crosses overhead the LS&I at Jackson Mine. [NCR-1904]