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Iron Mountain

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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A city and the county-seat of Dickinson county, Michigan, U.S.A., about 50 m. W. by N. of Escanaba, in the S.W. part of the Upper Peninsula. Pop. (1900) 9242, of whom 4376 were foreign-born; (1904, state census) 8585. It is served by the Chicago & North Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul railways. The city is situated about I 160 ft. above sea-level in an iron-mining district, and the mining of iron ore (especially at the Great Chapin Iron Mine) is its principal industry. Iron Mountain was settled in 1879, and was chartered in 1889.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Iron Mountain'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​i/iron-mountain.html. 1910.
 
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