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5 unusual facts about Calumet


Arthur Redner

He retired again in 1955 and moved with his wife to Calumet, Michigan.

Calumet

Calumet Farm, a well-known Thoroughbred horse breeding farm, owned by the founder of the Calumet Baking Powder Company

Calumet, Lexington

Its boundaries are Viley Road to the west, Versailles Road to the south, New Circle Road to the north, and Wolf Run Creek to the east.

Calumet, Pennsylvania

During the Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike of 1894, Calumet was the site of a bitter confrontation between the strikers and the H. C. Frick Coke Company, which at that time was part-owner of Calumet Coke Company.

Around 1932 the H. C. Frick Coke Company closed and abandoned the Calumet Mine and sent a number of the miners to the Standard Shaft Mine near Mount Pleasant, and laid off the rest of the coal miners to fend for themselves, with no compensation or means of support.


Anna Clemenc

In February 1913, Clemenc spearheaded the formation of the Women's Auxiliary No. 15 of the Western Federation of Miners in Calumet.

Born in Calumet, Michigan, she founded and served as president of the local Women's Auxiliary No. 15 of the Western Federation of Miners and was an active participant in the Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914.

Casper Petersen

Peterson was first a member of the assembly from Calumet County in 1868 (succeeding Randolph Needham of the National Union (Republican) party) and was assigned to the standing committee on roads, bridges and ferries.

Eldon Nelson

On February 28, 1949 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida he rode Calumet's future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame colt Coaltown to a win that equalled the world record of 1:47 3/5 for a mile-and-an-eighth on dirt.

Genesee Depot, Wisconsin

It is located in the Town of Genesee, in southeastern Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Madison, and named for the train station, or depot, of the Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad (now the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad) that formerly served the town.

Hilton Dabson

On September 11, 1937, Dabson rode the mud-lark Calumet Dick to victory in the Narragansett Special.

Laurium, Michigan

In 1895 the legislature changed Calumet's name to Laurium, after the famous mining town in ancient Greece.

Liz Swaine

After her municipal service, Swaine became communications director for Calumet Lubricants Company, an oil and natural gas concern which maintains a large plant in Cotton Valley in central Webster Parish.

Lucille P. Markey

In 1978, when Calumet Farm's outstanding three year old colt Alydar (named for Prince Aly Khan, and half-brother of Our Mims), ran in the Bluegrass States at Keeneland the Markeys (due to their failing health) were brought to the rail to watch him run.

Our Neighborhood Times

Our Neighborhood Times is a bimonthly community newspaper based in Hegewisch, Chicago and distributed throughout the neighborhoods along the eastern shore of Lake Calumet.

Ovie Scurlock

On June 11, 1949, he rode Coaltown, Calumet's Handicap Horse of the Year of 1949, to victory in the Roger Williams Handicap at Narragansett Park.

Ronnie Prophet

In his childhood, Ronnie Prophet lived in Calumet, Quebec and began performing at local venues in his youth.

Sag Bridge, Illinois

It is also the junction of IL 83 (Kingery Highway) and IL 171 (Archer Avenue) which meet at Sag Bridge to cross the Calumet Sag Channel together on the eponymous bridge.

United, Pennsylvania

Robert Ramsay, a long-time superintendent and engineer at Frick's renowned Shaft Mines near Mount Pleasant, was brought in to manage the United Mine & Coke Works and the Calumet Mine & Coke Works.

Warren Wright, Sr.

After his death, his widow Lucille Parker Wright - who had married Admiral Gene Markey - carried on the tradition and won another four as Calumet Farm set the record of eight official Derby winners.

Wheelockville, Massachusetts

However that Mill is listed in the National Register as the Calumet Mill, or Central Woolen Mills District.


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