Dino Chronicles: The Rest of the Museum

Friday, August 26, 2022

The Rest of the Museum - Camping Post #6

I’m sorry that I didn’t post anything earlier this week, but we were once again out of town – as hard as that is to believe. Today’s post is still from when we were camping in the UP in the middle of July. There has been so much happening since then!

But anyway, a week ago, I shared pictures from the one-room schoolhouse at the Iron County Historical Museum. Today hosts pictures from the rest of the grounds which are located at the site of the former Caspian Mine which closed in 1937. The tall headframe stands over a flooded mine shaft that is 539 feet deep!

As many times as I’ve visited the various mines of upper Michigan, you would think I would know how they work. Someday.

Imagine taking this to work on a frosty, January morning.

This is the Carrie Jacobs-Bond house. She was born in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1862 and later lived in Iron River with her second husband for seven years. She was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. She also formed her own sheet music publishing company when no one would take her seriously because she was a woman. She had an amazing, though tragic, life.

This was what her dining room table might have looked like. And surely what mine looks like at every meal. Not.

This looks more like my kitchen table.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church, built around 1912.

Quite obviously, and disappointedly, circa 1976 on the inside.

It was nice that Dino could join us as we walked around the grounds, even if he couldn’t go in the buildings. Like the silly boy needs to use the outhouse!