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Tourist Attraction - Quincy Company House

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For over 100 years, this simple, company-built house was a home for a number of employees at the Quincy Mining Company. One resident was Joshua Martin, an English immigrant, who was hired as a laborer by Quincy in 1886. He moved into this house in 1913 with his wife Flora and their nine children. Joshua spent little time in the house he called home; he worked long hours in the mine to pay for the rent and food his family depended on. When he left for the mine every day, Flora prepared a lunch for her husband and packed it in a tin pail. Over the course of his 35-year career at the mine, company records indicate only two instances when Joshua was away from work – once for “good time” (perhaps an earned holiday?) and once for a fractured skull after an accident in the mine. One day in 1921, Joshua left for work as usual, but did not return home. He was killed in a mine accident. According to company records, Flora and her children remained in the house until 1925. While they are just one family, their kitchen and story reveals what life was like for many of the working-class mining families on the Keweenaw Peninsula. The home was recently stabilized and future plans are for the restoration of the interior into a mining family exhibit.

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