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CLOSED FOR THE 2023 SEASON The Cornish Pumping Engine is the largest standing steam-driven pumping engine ever built in the United States and one of the largest pumping engines in the world. A working-scale model shows how the mammoth steam engine worked dewatering Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine, one of the wettest mines ever worked, and the largest producer of iron ore on the Menominee Iron Range. This museum also displays an extensive collection of mining equipment, dating from 1940 to about 1960, and contains the Museum Gift Shop. The Cornish Pumping Engine is a Michigan Historic Site (1958), a National Historic Site (1981), a Michigan Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (1984) and a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark (1987).CLOSED FOR THE 2023 SEASON The Cornish Pumping Engine is the largest standing steam-driven pumping engine ever built in the United States and one of the largest pumping engines in the world. A working-scale model shows how the mammoth steam engine worked dewatering Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine, one of the wettest mines ever worked, and the largest producer of iron ore on the Menominee Iron Range. This museum also displays an extensive collection of mining equipment, dating from 1940 to about 1960, and contains the Museum Gift Shop. The Cornish Pumping Engine is a Michigan Historic Site (1958), a National Historic Site (1981), a Michigan Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (1984) and a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark (1987).