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HUBBELL
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Upper & Lower Hungarian Falls. A dramatic walk along a succession of falls, all the more awesome because it's off the official tourist grid ...
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Region: Keweenaw Peninsula
HUBBELL
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 | | Scattered around the Hubbell area are massive, mysterious-looking reminders that this was once an important copper processing region. The ore arrived by railroad cars from the mines up on Keweenaw's spine. |
Founded: 1894
Population: 1,105
The long Torch Lake waterfront close to many mines made Hubbell a logical location for several stamping mills, where heavy stamping machines crushed copper-bearing rock to free its copper. Water flushed out the copper and rock onto mill equipment designed to separate copper from rock. The Quincy, Osceola, Tamarack, and Ahmeek mines all had stamp mills here, and C&H also had a smelter.
 | | Though copper mining in the Keweenaw ceased years ago, an old mining building between Torch Lake and M-26 just north of Hubbell houses a major local employer, PCI, which recovers scrap copper and refines it for special industrial uses. |
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HUBBELL
RESTAURANTS,
LODGINGS
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