Mine Hill

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In 1982 two graduate students, Michael Bell and Diane B. Mayerfeld, from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies published Time and the Land: The Story of Mine Hill.

You can download this interesting book here, in PDF format as follows:
The whole book in one file or in sections:

• Whole Book - 4,082 KB (40 pages)
• Intro - 466 KB (5 pages)
• Geology - 1,204 KB (10 pages)
• Ecology - 1,246 KB (9 pages)
• History - 1,715 KB (16 pages)

For a map overview of the location of Mine Hill and details on how to explore it, see #1 on our Preserves map. A new educational brochure (published 2007) is available for $3, and new interpretive signs have been installed at the preserve.

Further Mine Hill Research & Resources

Research commissioned by the Roxbury Land Trust:

• Mine Hill, Roxbury, CT, Elmer Garrett, President (1973-76) of Roxbury Land Trust, 1974-75

• The Nature Conservancy Recommendation "as a candidate for intensive action to insure preservation" in the early 1970's

• The Mine Hill Preservation, Roxbury Land Trust, 1980

• Report from Mine Hill, Frederick W. Chesson, 1981

• Mine Hill, Roxbury, CT: Preliminary Conservation Report, The Preservation Partnership, October 1982

• Mine Hill Furnace Archaeological Study, Robert Gordon and Michael Raber, December 1983

• Archaeological Reconnaissance and Management Recommendations for the Blast Furnace and Iron and Steel Making Complex: Mine Hill Preserve, Roxbury, Connecticut, Robert. B. Gordon and Michael S. Raber, December 1983

• Partial Historical and Archaeological Recording of The Ore Roasting Oven: Mine Hill Iron and Steel Making Complex, Roxbury, CT, Robert B. Gordon and Michael S. Raber, December 1984

• Mine Hill Preserve Addition (55 acres in New Milford): Resource Inventory and Management Recommendations, Jennifer Melville, Yale School of Forestry, 1987

• Additional Historical and Archaeological Documentation of The Ore Roasting Ovens: Mine Hill Iron and Steel Making Complex, Roxbury, CT, Robert B. Gordon and Michael S. Raber, January 1998

• Celebrating 35 Years, Roxbury Land Trust Newsletter, Summer 2005

Independent Research:

• History of Ancient Woodbury, 1854 William Cothran

• 1874 Beers Atlas of Litchfield County, Chalybes, Roxbury, CT

• New Milford Gazette, July 20, 1900, New Milford Historical Society

• The Roxbury Iron Mines, Gray L. Butler, 1930

• The Early Iron Industry of Connecticut, The 51st Annual Report of the CT Society of Civil Engineers, Inc., Herbert Keith and Charles Harte, 1934

• The Diggings on Mine Hill: An Address to The Old Woodbury Historical Society, Daniel Hull, March 1963

• Bewitched Mine Hill: The Silver-Lead-Iron Mine of Roxbury, CT, Daniel Hull, 1966

• The Geological Relationships and Economic History of Mine Hill, Severine Neff, 1970

• Northwestern Connecticut's Iron Hills Heritage, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, June 1975

• Northwestern Connecticut's Iron Hills Heritage: An Analysis of Restoration Projects, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protect, 1975

• Connecticut Industry and the Revolution, James P. Walsh, American Bicentennial Commission, 1978

• Men of Iron, Kenneth T. Howell and Einar W. Carlson, 1980

• America's Valley Forges and Valley Furnaces, J. Lawrence Pool, 1982

• Engines of Industrial Change; Industrial Revolution 1790-1860, Brook Hindle and Steven Lubar, 1986

• Steep Rock and The Shepaug, Brenda Lind and Caroline Norden, Yale School of Forestry, 1986

• Roxbury Remembered, Frederick Ungeheuer and Lewis and Ethel Hurlburt, 1989

• Roxbury Historical and Architectural Resource Survey, Jan Cunningham, 1997

• Echoes of Iron in Northwest Connecticut, Edward Kirby, Sharon Historical Society with a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council, 1998

• Industrial Heritage in Northwestern Connecticut, Robert Gordon and Michael Raber, 2000

• The Shepaug Railroad 1872 - 1948, Fletcher E. Cooper, 2002

• Trout Pool Paradox, George Black, 2004

• Connecticut Mining, John Pawloski, 2006

Private Research, Personal Discussions and Correspondence:

• David Beglan, Roxbury Land Trust director

• Billy Steers, Roxbury Land Trust director and resident artist/illustrator

• John Pawloski, Executive Director of the Connecticut Museum of Mining and Mineral Science (formerly New Milford Public School earth and life science teacher for 33 years; worked summers for Connecticut Archaeological Survey as field archaeologist)

• Robert Jacobs, Central CT Grotto of the National Speleological Society

• Marc Olivieri, Roxbury Land Trust director, Restoration of Roasting Ovens

• Fred Chesson, Personal Research

• Walter Landraf, Barkhamstead Historical Society

• Gino Buzzeo, Mine Hill Quarry

Photos and Slides of Mine Hill:

• Joseph West Photographs circa 1905, Collection of the Gunn Memorial Library, Washington, CT

• Photos of W. C. Woodman, Falls Village Historical Society, Falls Village, CT

• The Story of Mine Hill 1985, Slide Presentation of the late Richard Kruse, Roxbury, CT

• Photos of Charles Rufus Harte, Civil Engineer and Historian (1870-1956), Courtesy of Frederick Chesson

• John Pawloski Collection, Courtesy of John Pawloski

• Roxbury Land Trust Photo Archives

Other:

• Waterbury Republican, "LIKE BATS? VISIT: Waterbury Spelunkers Recently Disturbed The Slumbers of 150 of The Creatures To Obtain Hibernation Data- Rush to Defense of Maligned Animal,"February 29, 1948

• Connecticut Wildlife (September-October 1999)

• Mine Tunnel Mapping by Bob Jacob and the Central Connecticut Grotto of the National Speleological Society, completed 2005

• Bat Hibernacula - Studies of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection; studies by others.

• New Milford Historical Society

• Hodge Memorial Library, Roxbury, CT has a collection of artifacts from Mine Hill and plans an exhibit in September 2007.

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