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Quincy Smelter

The Quincy Mining Company Smelter was built in 1898, in what is now called Ripley, in Franklin Township, on a site formerly occupied by the Pewabic Mining Company. (Quincy had taken over Pewabic Mining in 1891). Copper mineral for smelting was provided by the Quincy #1 Mill on Torch Lake, 6 miles to the East (and a few years later by the Quincy No. 2 Mill, adjacent to the No. 1 Mill). Originally, smelting operations were done at a site at the foot of Reservation St., in Hancock, which was fed by an incline tramway from the Mines atop Quincy Hill.

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