Miners Memorial Heritage Park plans headframe

By PAMELA JANSSON

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IRONWOOD — Ironwood City Commissioners approved on Monday evening the amending of an ordinance that authorizes the expansion of Miners Memorial Heritage Park.

Several persons affiliated with the park spoke in favor of the plan.

Ivan Hellen, MMHP’s historian, said the designated area of expansion will hold a full-size model of a mining memorial headframe along Penokee Road.

“This is not just going to be a headframe,” he said. “It’s going to have stairs and a viewing platform.”

He believes the headframe will draw public interest and tourism while als...