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Calumet & Hecla Hospital

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The Calumet & Hecla Mining Company provided many benefits for its employees and their families, including health care from the late 1860s through 1953. When C&H merged in 1871, the recently constructed Calumet Mining Company agent's house was no longer needed, and was used as a hospital. The building was enlarged and extensively remodeled in 1897 according to plans by the architectural firm of Charlton, Gilbert, and Demar of Marquette and Milwaukee. Today a residence is located on the site of the hospital on Calumet Avenue, next to the C&H #16 shaft. A set of concrete stairs leading from the street is the only visible reminder of the C&H hospital, now #MissingintheCopperCountry. In 1898, the hospital’s staff of 26 included many of the women on C&H's payroll. Female nurses, a porter, a seamstress, and a laundress performed their duties at the hospital. They assisted in that year's treatment of 136 cases of surgery and disease, and assisted doctors on some of the thousands of office and house calls made that year.

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Historic image (overlay) courtesy Keweenaw NHP Archives Foster Album 8 #018 C&H Hospital 1951

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Keweenaw National Historical Park, Code: KEWE

Keweenaw National Historical Park, Houghton County, Michigan
Latitude: 47.1381988525391, Longitude: -88.5687026977539

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