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The mine was named after Baron Hatherton, who had assumed the surname Littleton in 1812. The first workings at the mine, however, were conducted by the Cannock and Huntingdon Colliery Company in 1877. Upon sinking the first "No. 1" shaft, they encountered water at a depth of 438 ft (133 metres) and the shaft became flooded. [1]
By 1890, the coalfield was producing 3 million tons of coal per year, [2] and by 1933 this had risen to over 5 million tons. [ 3 ] The last working coal mine beneath Cannock Chase, Littleton Colliery , was situated in the village of Huntington, Staffordshire on the A34 and closed on 3 December 1993. [ 1 ]
Cleveland, a camp of the Whitebreast Coal and Mining Company, outside Lucas, abandoned. Everist, a camp of the Mammoth Vein Coal Company (later, the Empire Coal Company), abandoned. Muchakinock, a coal camp of the Consolidation Coal Company, abandoned. Newton, where the well-known Maytag company closed down in 2006.
It is a complex of attached buildings typical of 19th century New England farms. At one end is the main house, a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 five bay wood-frame structure, was probably built sometime before 1812 for Isaac and Mary Gardner Reed.
Acid mine drainage at the Davis Mine. Davis, Massachusetts, is the abandoned location of the Davis Pyrite Mine, located in the town of Rowe, Massachusetts. Once the largest iron pyrite mine in Massachusetts, Davis grew to be a decent sized mining village at the beginnings of the Second Industrial Revolution (1870–1915). But in 1911, a non ...
Littleton (historically Nashoba) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 10,141 at the 2020 census. The population was 10,141 at the 2020 census. [ 1 ]
Littleton Common is located in northwestern Middlesex County at (42.536606, -71.471984), in the eastern part of the town Littleton It is bordered to the northeast by the town of Westford and to the northwest by Interstate 495, with access from Exit 79 (Routes 2A and 110) and Exit 80 ().
The Houghton Memorial Building occupies a triangular parcel of land at the junction of King and Foster Streets, southwest of Littleton's modern center. King Street (Massachusetts Route 2A) passes north of the building and Rogers Street is a short spur joining it to Foster Street. This area was historically the town center, and the building ...