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22A WWW.FREEP.COM SUNDAY, OCT.14,2012 WHO WAS RUTH ANN MILLER? A7-year-old girl who fell into an abandoned mine shaft in Copper Country on July 16, 1966. She had been picking strawberries with her two brothers and aneighbor, when she slipped through the concrete cap that had eroded, according to her Taylor. Her death at the Calumet and HeclaMiningsite shone the spotlight on the dangers of old mines. was a great push to find and locate these abandoned shafts and take care of any kind of further Taylor said. WAS HER BODY EVER RETRIEVED? No.

According to news reports at the time, the mine, which was last used in 1924, was about a mile deep. A concrete plug was installed at 1,100 feet, wherean estimated 200 feet of water accumulated. Rescue workers were unable to find Ruth Ann, whose grandfather worked for the company that owned the mine. Calumet and Hecla was celebrating its 100th anniversary at the time.Memorial services were held at the site four days later. WAS THERE A LAWSUIT? The family was awarded a small amount of money.

WHAT IS THERE NOW? Taylor drives in from Houghton to maintain the memorial he and the rest of the family erected in 1966. It consists of a tombstone on a concrete slab along with aplaque. is a flower bed, where the remains of Ruth mother were buried when she died in 1988. WHERE IS IT EXACTLY? When driving along M-203 west from U.S.-41, make a right on 10th Street. Continue past Lower and Upper Red Jacket Shaft roads, past all the houses.

Then make a left and continue down until you see the memorial. YOU LIVED HERE UNTIL By Zlati Meyer Free Press Business Writer YOU VISIT THE RUTH ANN MILLER MEMORIAL IN CALUMET About half the slab that covered the mine shaft fell inwhen rescuers tried to remove it. MICHIGAN TECH ARCHIVESPHOTOS Ruth Ann Miller, 7, rides a pony in Calumet. She was picking strawberries in July 1966 when she fell downan abandoned copper mineshaft.Her body couldnot be recovered. MARTHA FREE PRESS ET MAR THA TH IER HOUGHTON COUNTY DETAIL Calumet, site of the Ruth Ann Miller memorial Cal the Mi 8 miles PORT HURON Cutter is on National Register list The U.S.

Coast Guard Cutter Bramble and four other Michigan entities have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Bramble is significant because itis one of the first American vessels to circumnavigate North Americathrough the Northwest Passage. It was decommissioned in 2003 and is moored in Port Huron. The other additions announced last weekby the state include the J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory in Jonesville, the Hamtramck Stadium site that was a home for Negro Leagues baseball, the Eagle Harbor Coast Guard Station Boathouse in Keweenaw County and the Island City Historic District in Eaton Rapids.

Eight additional properties in Michigan were recently nominated to the National Register by the State Historic Preservation Review Board. MANISTEE Flights to Chicago expected to end Daily commercial flights between Manistee Airport and Midway are expected to end this month. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that Waterford-based Aerodynamics Inc. has notified federal Transportation officials that starting Tuesdayit no longer will operate the flights to and from Midway. Manistee airport director Barry Lind says Aerodynamics gave no official reason for ending service.

Aerodynamics started providing service on May 24 as the direct air carrier for Public Charters when Frontier Airlines stopped flying to Manistee. Each daily flight had capacity for 50 passengers. The Record-Eagle reports that Public Charters is working to find a replacement airline. LANSING Job fair to be hosted by Michigan National Guard The Michigan National Guard is hosting a job fair in Lansing next monthfeaturing more than 60 companies. Officials said the event will run 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Nov. 7-9 at Michigan National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters in Lansing. The event is free and open to veterans and spouses. Dress is business casual and job seekers should bring several copies of their Michigan news briefs Press news services Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded Detroit, died in his native France on Oct. 15, 1730, at age 72.

Shortly before the turn of the 18th Century, he convinced King Louis XIV to let him build a fort on the strait in French between lakes Erie and Huron to protect French interests in the New World from the British. He began to build the settlement on July 24, 1701. Two days after he arrived on what is now the Detroit River, he began building the Ste. Anne de Detroit Catholic Church. The congregation exists to this day, though in a different location.

It is now near the Ambassador Bridge. idea to get Detroit (which was then named for Louis Phelypeaux, the Comte de Pontchartrain) to grow was to attract the local Indians, which he wanted to do by trading them alcohol for animal skins, which the local Jesuits op- posed. His plan work. He also had to contend with a fire that ruined much of the fort in 1703. Cadillac and his wife, Marie-Therese Guion, had 13 children.

In 1710, Cadillac was relieved of his duties in Detroit and made governor of Louisiana. He moved back to France a few years later. This week in Michigan history Detroit founder dies in his native France BURTON HISTORICAL DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac founded what is now Detroit on July 24, 1701. Meyer MICHIGAN BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP Tim Bennett and other volunteers have dug up thousands of artifacts at an 1800s pioneer homestead in Brighton Township, many of which were found in the trash pit. As the adage goes, one trash is another treasure, and that suits Bennett just fine.

The weekend archaeologist said he has discovered a lot about his ancestors, the Warners, who lived on the site at Pleasant Valley and Buno roads for 170 years. Bennett grow up on the property, but his mother did. The Warners settled in Livingston County in 1837, when it was wilderness and a few prairies and had no roads. He said the pioneers carved out farms by cutting down and burning trees, did back-breaking farm work using only horses and plows, and struggled to survive diseases such as ague and scarlet fever. is the dream site to work Bennett said.

archaeologist would want to work on their own homestead. about he added. Although Bennett co-owns a software company, the Clio man spends most of his weekends at archaeological digs in Michigan, Ohio and Canada. The farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Bennett said his ancestors gradually became large-scale farmers.

By 1875, they were managing 500 acres and had the second-largest farm in Brighton Township and the 11th-largest farm in the county. During the dig, he has found pottery, ceramics, nails, bones, buttonsandcoins. Bennett also found a Radio Orphan Annie Decoder, which could date to the 1930s. The six-year dig started when a dog began digging a hole and daughter, then 3, found a piece of pottery in the dirt. probably the youngest person in Michigan archeology to stumble on a Bennett said.

He said he and volunteers started digging around the site, which is where the trash was dumped. During a dig, he said, volunteers lay out a grid and dig in 30- inch squares. All artifacts go into a marked bag. Bennett said the Greek Revival house on the property was built in 1855 and was evidence of the success. They originally lived in a log cabin.

house is the outward example of saying, made he said. Bennett said many of the settlers came from upstate New York, and they began traveling to Michigan when a new survey showed the land had many natural resources. DIGGING UP FAMILY HISTORY Brighton Township farm artifacts a link to ancestors By Jim Toten Livingston Daily Press Argus TIM BENNETT VIA THE LIVINGSTON DAILY PRESS ARGUS Asix-year dig at an 1800s pioneer farmstead in Brighton Township has turned up thousands of artifacts, including pottery, bones and coins. During a dig, like this one in 2009, volunteers dig in 30-inch squares. KERRY BENNETT VIA DAILY PRESS ARGUS Tim Bennett, at the site in 2010, says his homestead the dream site to work ACOOL MICHIGAN WEBSITE www.printsoldandrare.com/michigan LOWDOWN: Looking for a hand-colored 1873 map of the Lower Peninsula, perhaps? How about a lithograph showing Adrian College in 1876? A 1934 colored Lincoln Zephyr ad? This is the place..