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Central is located on US Highway 41 about five miles east of Phoenix, Michigan. Central Mine was organized in 1854 to mine a vein of copper exposed by a pit dug by earlier Ojibwa Indian miners. One of the most noteworthy Central, or Central Mine, a village that once was the home for over 1,200 people, and the site of one Keweenaw's most successful mines. The mine, opened in 1854, produced nearly 52 million pounds of copper by the time it closed in 1898. It closed in 1898, having paid dividends of nearly two million dollars on an original investment of $100,000.
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