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BLOGGING AT THE INTERSECTION OF
INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE 
AND  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Documenting the Hi-Yu Stamp Mill: Fairbanks, AK

1/4/2018

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A measured drawing of the apron room within the Hi-Yu Stamp Mill - Located just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
I've been doing some digital house cleaning, which is a surprisingly really fun process. I've uncovered quite a few past projects that I've decided to publish on this website, instead of letting them languish on a junk drive.
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The first of these rediscovered posts focuses on a project that occurred from 2010-2012. During this time,  I had the good fortune to spend the majority of my summers conducting archaeological field work in historic gold mining claims just north of Fairbanks, Alaska. This work was part of my MS in Industrial Archaeology at Michigan Tech (you can find my thesis here). Rather than just presenting a photo essay of some of the mine sites we recorded, I thought it could be educational, and maybe fun, to show some snippets of how an industrial archaeologist records a complex standing stamp mill. Specifically, I hope this post breaks down the process of documenting a multi-story industrial facility, and next, how these data can be used to reconstruct how that technological system functioned.
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The Hi-Yu Stamp Mill, which processed lode gold in the Fairbanks Creek area.

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    John Baeten is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Analysis of Environmental Change in the Department of Geography at Indiana University. He holds a PhD in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. His research aims to connect historical process to current environmental challenges, and to contextualize the environmental legacies of industrialization as meaningful cultural heritage.

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