Ducktown Basin Museum - outside exhibits #2
Resuming our walking tour around the former Burra Burra mine site:
1. Ducktown Basin Museum tour numbered locations.
2. Superintendents or general managers home on left. Home of another high-ranking official on right #1. Both are private residences now. Burra.
3. Superintendent's house # 1. Burra.
4. Superintendents' homes. Plaque # 1. Burra.
5. Hose #25 (red frame), hoist # 27 (right), and boiler house #28 (left). Burra.
6. Hoist house. Plaque # 27. Burra.
7. Boiler house #28. Burra.
8. Boiler house. Plaque # 28. Burra.
9. Mining equipment including an Eimco power shovel, locomotive and mine cars #29. Burra.
10. Power shovel #29. Burra.
11. Mining equipment. Plaque # 29. Burra.
12. Ore bin foundations # 26 and lab building #24. The former mine office #13, now the museum, is on the hill in the background. The loaded track passed underneath the bin and stub ended back of the gray time/lab building. Burra.
13. Ore bin foundations. Plaque # 26. Burra.
14. Time office and later the geology lab #24. Burra.
15. Time office and geology lab. Plaque #24. Burra.
16. Former rail bed, powder house (left) and bit house (right). Superintendent’s house on hill on right. Burra.
17. Tennessee Copper railroad heading north from mine before curling around to the south. USGS Ducktown quad, 1:24,000 scale for 1957. Ducktown, TN, 1:24,000 quad, 1957, USGS.
18. Looking north on old roadbed going under a street bridge. Burra.
19. Powder house #22. Burra.
20. Powder house plaque #22. Burra.
21. Overturned underground ore car with some specimens that definitely need crushed. Burra.
22. Bit house #23. Burra.
23. View also includes the shop on the hill, time office, ore bins, and bit house. Plaque #23. Burra.
24. Looking down toward TN 64, former company houses dot the hill. The Burra Burra mine was in easy walking distance for many of the employees. Burra.
25. Company houses plaque #31. Burra.
26. Clinic #32. Burra.
27. Clinic plaque #32. Burra.
28. From the rear of the boiler house, the crane #19 and tall crane boom rises on the hill near the shop #30. Burra.
29. Employee walkway tunnel #30. Burra.
30. Walkway tunnel. Plaque # 30. Burra.
Looks like one tail track for the empties that would be dropped under the ore bins. Maybe there were more near the head frame. The whole mine layout is very similar to a shaft coal mine.
Next we will look at some of the more interesting exhibits in the museum.
Images used by permission of Everett N Young