The Ghost Town of View Cove, Dall Island, Alaska
View From the Crusher Building
What is now the Ghost Town of View Cove on Dall Island, Alaska, located in South Eastern Alaska, about 45 miles west of Ketchikan, and about 6 miles southwest of Hydaburg, which is located on Prince of Wales Island. View Cove operated as a limestone quarry camp where crushed limestone was quarried and shipped to Seattle, WA where it was made into Portland Cement. It operated a an active quarry from about 1928 to about 1942 when it was shut down because of World War II.
View of the Conveyor which Carried crushed Rock from the Hammer Mill to the "Glory Hole", 1938.
The pile of crushed rock in the "Glory Hole" is about a high as it got before the SS Diamond Cement arrrived.
View of the Conveyor House Which Carried the Crushed Rock out to the Loading Dock.
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