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A quarterly magazine for people who care about the Connecticut River; its history, health, and ecology— present and future.
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Elizabeth Mine

September 1, 2024

From pre-colonial virgin forest to copper ore discovery in 1789 by farmer John Taylor, to over 150 years of commercial copper extraction, to abandonment and toxic spoils leached into the Ompompanoosuc River (a tributary of the Connecticut River), to complete reclamation, the mine has undergone profoundly transformative changes....