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Ducktown
Hiwassee Mine Stack
Highway 68/College Street, Ducktown (Private Drive)
Directions: I-75 Exit 20. Travel Hwy 64 towards Cleveland. Travel 6.3 miles. Take the Hwy 64 East ramp Ocoee . Travel up to Ducktown and take TN 68-N. Travel a short distance and turn left on Main Street, then left on College Street. Travel .2 miles - stack can be viewed on the right.
Overlooking Highway 68 in Ducktown, this reproduction brick stack symbolizes the original Hiwassee Mine that operated during the Civil War. Confederate forces occupied and controlled the mines through late 1863. As soon as the fighting ended, companies reinvested in the region and production soared. From 1865 to 1878, over 24 million pounds of copper were taken from underground mines while fifty square miles of the basin were stripped of timber in order to build underground mines and fuel local smelters
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