Copper Basin, also known as the Ducktown Basin, is a geological region located primarily in Polk County, Tennessee, that contains deposits of copper ore...
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Copper Basin (sometimes called the Ducktown Basin), a broad valley located in the southern Appalachian Mountains near the intersection of Tennessee,...
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Copperhill is located in a geological region known as the Copper Basin, which was the site of a major copper mining operation between the 1840s and 1987. Starting...
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Copper Basin may refer to: Copper Basin (Tennessee) Copper Basin (Nevada) Copper Basin Railway, Arizona Copper Basin High School, Copperhill, Tennessee...
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The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra...
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Kimsey Junior College (category Copper Basin (Tennessee))
time its construction was commissioned. Due to the isolation of the Copper Basin from major population centers in the state, the building was never used...
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McCaysville, Georgia (category Copper Basin (Tennessee))
Copperhill, Tennessee. The two are situated as a single town along a river, known as the Toccoa River in Georgia and the Ocoee River in Tennessee. The change...
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Copper Basin High School is a public high school in Copperhill, Tennessee. The school is one of two public high schools in the Polk County Schools district...
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attractions in Tennessee. Public schools in Polk County are operated by the Polk County Schools district. High Schools include Copper Basin High School and...
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Martin Campbell Field (category Copper Basin (Tennessee))
is a general aviation airport located near Copperhill, Tennessee. It serves the Copper Basin region in which it is located, as well as the entirety of...
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Ladew v. Tennessee Copper Company, 218 U.S. 357 (1910), was a United States Supreme Court case involving jurisdiction over a suit involving a citizen from...
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Wetmore v. Tennessee Copper Company, 218 U.S. 369 (1910), was a United States Supreme Court case involving jurisdiction over a suit involving a wealthy...
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Lakes Basin 14. Tennessee River Basin 15. Ohio River Basin 16. South Atlantic-Gulf Basin 17. Mid-Atlantic Basin 18. New England Basin Copper River Basin Yukon...
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Copper Basin in Southeast Tennessee". The Tellico Plains Mountain Press. Tellico Plains, Tennessee. Retrieved May 30, 2008. "The Greening of Copper Basin"...
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Julius Eckhardt Raht (category Copper Basin (Tennessee))
businessman who pioneered the mining and smelting of copper in the Copper Basin in Eastern Tennessee and reputedly became the richest man in the state....
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Copper Basin in Southeast Tennessee". The Tellico Plains Mountain Press. Tellico Plains, Tennessee. Retrieved May 30, 2008. "The Greening of Copper Basin"...
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Toccoa/Ocoee River (category Rivers of Tennessee)
riverfront towns of Copperhill, Tennessee and McCaysville, Georgia. The area was once heavily mined for copper ore from the Copper Basin and polluted by smelting...
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route of the Old Copper Road, a wagon trail dating back to the 1830s used for transporting copper from the mines in the Copper Basin to Cleveland and...
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1851, the railroad was completed through Cleveland. After copper mining began in the Copper Basin in neighboring Polk County in the 1840s, headquarters for...
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near Benton, Tennessee. It is one of two high schools in Polk County and the Polk County Schools district, the other being Copper Basin High School, with...
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byproduct copper along with the nickel until it shut down in 1893. The Copper Basin, located in the extreme southeastern corner of Tennessee in Polk County...
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Waters, Jack. "Mining the Copper Basin in Southeast Tennessee". The Tellico Plains Mountain Press. Tellico Plains, Tennessee. Retrieved May 30, 2008. Lamon...
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(Franklin) Baptist Hospital (Knoxville, Tennessee) Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (1912-2000) Copper Basin Medical Center (Copperhill) Decatur County...
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Railway Bay Line Railroad Copper Basin Railway East Tennessee Railway Galveston Railroad Georgia Central Railway Kentucky West Tennessee (KWT) Little Rock and...
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railroad was constructed in the late 1880s, providing rail access to the Copper Basin. A ferry began operation in the center of the community east of the railroad...
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Valley." Tennessee Archaeologist 28, no. 1 (Spring of 1962), 47–50. William Webb, An Archaeological Survey of the Norris Basin in Eastern Tennessee (Washington...
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Divisions of Tennessee include: East Tennessee Middle Tennessee West Tennessee Other geographical distinctions: Highland Rim Nashville Basin Tennessee Valley...
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significant expansion of the Sudbury Basin operations took place, including some twelve new mines. All recovered nickel, copper, and smaller amounts of other...
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the interior at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The V&T moved also key raw materials: copper from mines near Cleveland, Tennessee, lead from mines near Bristol...
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zinc were mined in Wythe County, Virginia, and copper was mined and smelted in Polk County, Tennessee. Two major Appalachian goldfields were developed...
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