# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: 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.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/marquette/barnes-hecker-mine-disaster/200029150387049
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 64

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Marquette
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Marquette Regional History Center
- **lat**: 46.541421
- **long**: -87.395655
- **full address**: Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W Spring St,Marquette,MI,United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/d0713e36295382b28c98f6fc836eba096b2547681cafa3dfc0090fa63780db30-rimg-w732-h786-dcc8c8a8-gmir?v=1786914142

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster being held?
  - **A:** Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster takes place on Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Marquette Regional History Center, 145 W Spring St,Marquette,MI,United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster?
  - **A:** Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster is organized by Barnes-Hecker 100th Anniversary.

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