Between 18, the United States experienced, as the Smithsonian Institution states, “a surge of technological innovations and inventions, like Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, fueled economic growth.” The region began to have more in common with 1950 than 1880. In less than 70 years, the Lake Superior copper district had evolved from a wilderness to a world-class industrial complex.īy the beginning of the second decade of the 20th century, the Copper Country, like the rest of the United States, was rapidly transitioning into modernity. The buildings were still in remarkable condition 68 years later when this automobile was parked on the post parade ground. Clary and his two companies of the Fifth Infantry constructed Fort Wilkins during the summer of 1844. This October 1912 photograph captures the history of the Copper Country in the motion of change.
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