TODAY WE WERE MINERS!

Me and Troy in our miner gear at the Delaware Mine in Delaware, MI. This was a very cool place. Now I mean this in a couple of ways. The mine shaft that we ventured into was only in the 40's and it was also only occupied by us at the time of our visit. We had arrived late in the day, we were in the middle of practically nowhere, and we were walking down into the ground too. Extremely cool and cold at the same time.

It was dark in the Delaware mine. They had left the place as is there from how the miners left it in the 1800's. It was only in use for 40 years and has been abandoned since. There is still some visible copper there in the walls of the mine.

This is the Quincy mine. We went down into this mine too. It was a much more populated tour. There was a train down to the shaft then a wagon that carried us through the mine. This one was pretty neat when we got into the mine because they turned out all the lights and you have never really known dark until you are in a mine with absolutely no light. 

We also visited some ghost towns in several places. This is just one of the very neat places we saw that was a surviving place from history. There were many of the homes, schools, or old businesses that have been either preserved or marked that we were able to see and even tell what they were. It was fascinating. Troy even got a couple of books about two of the towns that were bigger that we saw.

I know this has nothing to do with mines but I had to throw it in. This is the library in Houghton. I thought it was very nice that it had a view of sailboats docked behind it.