TCI Muscoda Mines
Community Facilities
These images are from the Historic American Engineering Record, on the Library of Congress web site.
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Currently serving as a private community church building, this was originally a TCI Medical Dispensary. Located south of SR 150 near the end of the overpass crossing above SR 150 on the northwest side of Red Mountain. |
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This school building was provided for "colored" employees by TCI. It is located on the south side of Red Mountain near the intersection of SR 150 and Morgan Road at Muscoda. |
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TCI provided a separate school facility for "white" students. This is located south SR 150 on the northwest side of Red Mountain. |
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This church was provided by TCI for the "colored" workers and their families. It is located adjacent to the school site southeast of Morgan Road at SR 150. Today it is a privately owned neighborhood church. |
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provided for workers including swimming, athletic fields, ball
diamonds and the like. TCI began these progressive communities
before WWI under the leadership of President George Gordon Crawford,
beginning in 1907, when TCI was taken over by U.S. Steel. This
was partly out of good intentions, and partly out of good
business.
At the time he took over TCI, employee turnover was as high as 400% annually, and the average worker put in 12 days per month. In response, the Company set high standards for sanitation, and reduced malaria among the workers by a great deal. This was done by employing Dr. Lloyd Nolan, a member of Dr. Gorgas' staff who helped solve this problem for Teddy Roosevelt at the Panama Canal. Dr. Nolan lobbied TCI to build, staff and maintain a complete hospital, located in Fairfield, which still exists as a private facility. This overall policy led TCI to develop a series of "model" worker communities, including a complete town, initially known as Corey. That is another story. |
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1937 FSA/OWI Images of Store and Mine Site |