Tamarack/Osceola Smelter

Tamarack/Osceola Smelter was a copper smelter jointly built by the Tamarack and Osceola mining companies in 1888 in Dollar Bay, Michigan.[1] The smelting was merged in 1891 with the Detroit and Lake Superior Company to form the Lake Superior Smelting Company.[2]

Smelter and dock, Dollar Bay, Mich. c1906

See also

Notes
  1. Lankton, Larry. Hollowed Ground: Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840-1990. Google Books Page 135
  2. "The Portage Lake Smelter Tour- the Lake Superior Smelting Company, Pt.1". 28 March 2010.

47°06′58″N 88°29′58″W


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