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Copper Country Journal: The Diary of Schoolmaster Henry Hobart 1863-1864

by Henry Hobart

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A schoolmaster’s record of a Michigan mining community

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A schoolmaster’s record of a Michigan mining community

Henry Hobart’s 1863–1864 diary documents life around Cliff Mine in Clifton, a town shaped by one of the world’s leading copper producers. The volume’s introduction and diary entries also provide information about the copper industry from 1845 to 1865. Its historical value lies in the range of subjects brought together: mine work and its unsafe conditions, the lives of workers and their families, and the mine’s influence on the wider community. The result is a local record that connects industrial history with the people who lived alongside it.

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  • Readers interested in nineteenth-century American diaries and historical biography.
  • Those studying copper mining, labor conditions, or the social history of Michigan communities.

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Copper miningLabor and mine safetyFamily and community lifeMichigan history

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Book overview

Copper Country Journal brings to life a culture and community long since passed from the American landscape. It includes a wealth of information, both within the introduction and throughout the diary, about the copper industry from 1845-1865. Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine, one of the leading producers of copper in the world and the primary employer in the town of Clifton. He provides firsthand accounts of the unsafe conditions in the mines, the workers and their families, and the impact of the mine on the employees and the community.

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