My grand mother Hannah Miller was the school teacher there when it closed down in the early forties. My mother Vivian Miller was one of her students. They lived in the back of the newer school house. I took momma back there before she passed.
we were there in june 2011 and did the self guided tour. it was really interesting and you could take your time and really check things out. so so history here at the vulture mine and it was a great self guided tour. would like to do it again but vulture mine was sold and is now a operating mine again. i understand they give some what of a guided tour but i do not know what they charge and i think its only on saturday unless it was changed. i still think it would be worth a visit and learn some of the great history of the vulture mine as well as the surrounding area. ron & dianne
In refence to the Drill bits and of the sharpening, they built a forge, and would wait until those things cherry red, then there was probably 2 men dressing these bits as it's called, with sledgehammers, and they also had a gauge to make sure that the bits don't get sort of mushroomed out a little, but the gauge is just a reference to keep the same width of the bit going in the hole!
This was a very nice slide show of your visit. I enjoyed it very much. Thank You.
My grand mother Hannah Miller was the school teacher there when it closed down in the early forties. My mother Vivian Miller was one of her students. They lived in the back of the newer school house. I took momma back there before she passed.
Don't forget to bring a nice mirror on these adventures as reflecting the sunlight down the hole is the best way to take a look
we were there in june 2011 and did the self guided tour. it was really interesting and you could take your time and really check things out. so so history here at the vulture mine
and it was a great self guided tour. would like to do it again but vulture mine was sold and is now a operating mine again. i understand they give some what of a guided tour but i do
not know what they charge and i think its only on saturday unless it was changed.
i still think it would be worth a visit and learn some of the great history of the vulture mine as well as the surrounding area.
ron & dianne
Fixer upper
In refence to the Drill bits and of the sharpening, they built a forge, and would wait until those things cherry red, then there was probably 2 men dressing these bits as it's called, with sledgehammers, and they also had a gauge to make sure that the bits don't get sort of mushroomed out a little, but the gauge is just a reference to keep the same width of the bit going in the hole!