Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster

Name: Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
Start: 2026-10-21T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-21T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Marquette Regional History Center

Barnes-Hecker 100th Anniversary

Highlights

Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm

1 hour

Marquette Regional History Center

Date & Location

Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm (EDT)

Marquette Regional History Center

145 W Spring St, Marquette, Michigan, United States

About the event

Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster

Historian Jim Paquette will present the devastating story of the Barnes-Hecker Mine, which operated in Ely Township, northwest of Ishpeming.

On the morning of November 3, 1926, the mine caved in and flooded, killing 51 miners. Forty one miners remain entombed in the abandoned mine one hundred years later. The tragedy remains Michigan’s worst mining disaster.

Jim will present for 45 minutes, and a Q & A session will follow.