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(VERMONT AUCTION). Adjourned Auction Sale of the Vermont Copper Mines. [Caption title]. Oblong 4to. broadside. [Thetford?, Vt: 1887]. $125.00

 

    The mine opened in 1854 and was active during and right after the Civil War, when the demand for copper boomed. Children as young as 10 were employed at the mine. The auction had been adjourned from 1884.