This remote memorial marks the abandoned mine shaft where six-year-old Ruth Ann Miller fell in 1966 during a tragedy that drew a major rescue effort. The incident helped focus attention on dangerous unsealed shafts across Copper Country; the shrine is reached by an unmarked dirt road and should be treated as a memorial rather than a curiosity to disturb.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura