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VIEW OF SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SHAFTHOUSE, LOOKING NORTHEAST - Queen Mine, Shafthouse, Centennial Ridge, Medicine Bow National Forest, Centennial, Albany County, WY
Title
VIEW OF SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SHAFTHOUSE, LOOKING NORTHEAST - Queen Mine, Shafthouse, Centennial Ridge, Medicine Bow National Forest, Centennial, Albany County, WY
Description
Hull, A H; Northrop, Jesse; Northrop, B E
Depicted place Wyoming; Albany County; Centennial
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER WYO,1-CENT.V,3-A-3
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  • Significance: As part of the Queen Mine, this structure is associated with events that have made significant contributions to the broad patterns of our history, i.e., early 20th century mining for precious metals in Wyoming and the western United States. This large rectangular two-room shafthouse (45 feet E-W by 16 feet, N-S) is built directly over the open shaft of the Queen Mine. It also has an intact headframe built with large timbers, and cribbing filled with rock which acted as a platform for the hoisting machinery. The steel winch assemble is still in place. The shafthouse was built with round, unhewn logs, using V-notching, mud chinking and small wood slabs to keep the chinking in place. It had a gable roof covered with rough slab lumber supported by log purloins and ridgepole, but is now mostly roofless. Round nail spikes were used in construction. The vertical headframe tower supports have rotted off and no longer provides any support for the superstructure. The east room of the shafthouse leans badly to the south. This classic structure is in need of stabilization or the headframe will collapse and damage or destroy the shafthouse. A large ore dump surrounds the shafthouse on the west and north sides.
  • Survey number: HAER WY-19-A
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1924 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wy0142.photos.174143p
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