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Many Aspen miners came from the iron mines in Michigan and Minnesota like these in Sellers’ Mine in Hibbing, Minn. Library of Congress photo
Why would someone want to be a miner in the 1880s? Where did those miners come from? There is not an easy answer to those questions as there were a variety of answers, but exploring them shows that Aspen had a diverse populace.
One profile defined the nation as much as Aspen. In the 1880s manufacturing rapidly expanded but much of the developed world, including America, operated with mostly a rural agricultural economy. Immigration to America included males from large agricultural families. The eldest son inherited the farm so the younger brothers knew if they were to have any kind of future they had to go somewhere else.
Answering the Call: Erie County, Pennsylvania in World War One, is built on the committee s research of the roughly 200 men each with connections to Erie County who died in the war, as well as the various contributions made by Erie County residents.
The committee will launch the 176-page book Tuesday at the Erie County Historical Society, at the Watson Curtze Mansion, 356 W. 6th St., from 5-7 p.m. The public is invited. Face masks are required.
The book includes biographies, a list of more than 2,300 Erie County men and women who served during the war, as well as chapters on the local infantry units of the 28th Division and the local machine gun battalion of the 80th Division.
Answering the call : WWI Centennial Committee to launch book on Erie s war effort A.J. Rao, Erie Times-News
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The Erie County World War One Centennial Committee for the past three years has set out to honor residents whose service and sacrifice a century ago helped win the Great War.
While a memorial placed in Erie County Veterans Memorial Park in 2019 was arguably the group s crowning achievement, a new book, which pools research on Erie County s role in the war, is perhaps their most significant work. Answering the Call: Erie County, Pennsylvania in World War One, is built on the committee s research of the roughly 200 men each with connections to Erie County who died in the war, as well as the various contributions made by Erie County residents.
Hunter Creek Mill near the entrance to the Cowenhoven Tunnel 1925. Aspen Historical Society photo
The hunter Creek Mill, around for around 40 years, opened and closed a number of times. Explaining its on-again off- again history provides context for explaining mining after 1900.
The mill was built in 1902 to process ores from the two-mile long Cowenhoven Tunnel that was driven to drain water from several Smuggler Mountain mines and to provide a cheaper way of getting the ore out of the mountain. Before that time much of the ore was not milled. Ore was sorted at the surface with the better ore shipped directly to the smelter and the lesser quality ore dumped on site. But the quantity of the better ore was dropping and milling processes improved to make the dump material more profitable. In addition, the Hunter Creek Mill could process ore from smaller mines (the larger ones often had their own mills), and mines with lower grade ore.