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Cornish Pumping Engine
 
Cornish Pump Marker • <i>wide view<br>(marker visible just left of museum entrance)</i> image, Touch for more information
By Cosmos Mariner, June 30, 2010
Cornish Pump Marker • wide view
(marker visible just left of museum entrance)
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1 Michigan, Dickinson County, Iron Mountain — S0273 — Cornish PumpRegistered Michigan Historic Site
When the E. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee built this pump in 1890/91, it was heralded as the nation’s largest steam-driven pumping engine. On January 3, 1893, the massive engine, designed by Edwin C. Reynolds, began lifting two hundred tons of water . . . Map (db m143663) HM
2 Michigan, Dickinson County, Iron Mountain — James and Ida Goulette
Restoration and preservation of this Cornish Pumping Engine, the largest ever built in the nation, was made possible largely through the efforts of James and Ida Goulette of Iron Mountain. In a life time of service to his fellow citizens, Jim was a . . . Map (db m143668) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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