Mine Index Number: 6671
| Company Name:
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Nicholas Cotton
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| Mine Name:
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Cotton Shaft
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| Start Date:
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Circa 1864
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End Date:
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Unknown
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| Type of Mine:
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Underground
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| Total acres shown:
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None [1]
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| Acres after map date:
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General Area of mining acres shown:
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Not Shown On Map.
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Shaft, Slope, Drift or Tipple Location(s)
| Type
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County
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Township-Range
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Section
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Part Section
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| Main shaft
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Grundy
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32N 8E
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25
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NE SW NW
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Geology
| Colchester
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98
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LW (old longwall)
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Geological Problems Reported
Production
| Company
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Mine Name
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Date
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Production (tons)
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Production Notes
Coal Report production (if available)
Sources of Data
| Atlas of Grundy County
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1874
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1:6336
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1:6336
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Secondary source
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Annotated Bibliography (Data source - brief description of information)
| Directory of Illinois Coal Mines (Grundy County) - Mine names, mine index, ownership, years of operation.
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| Mine notes (Grundy County) - Mine name.
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| Atlas of Grundy County, 1874 - Shaft location, mine name.
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| History of Grundy County, 1882 - Depth.
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Mine Notes
Mine Images
Photographs
Notes
- ↑ This mine is within a larger area mined by the Old Bruce Mine (mine index 2357).
- ↑ According to History of Grundy County (1914), this was the first shaft sunk at Braceville but it only operated for a short time. Production and date of operation are unknown. In Miners of the Prairie, a cooperative shaft was said to have been sunk in 1858 at the present site of Braceville, which may indicate this mine. In Grundy County Sesquitennial, Nicholas Cotton was said to have donated land to the village for Cotton Cemetery. The road along the mine was also said to have been called “Smokey Row” because of the row of “black, unpainted, one-story houses” there.
