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White Pine High School ca1940’s-2024 Welcome to this week’s edition of White Pine: Then & Now! In this week’s comparison, we are taking another look at White Pine High School. I don’t have a date on the original photo, but carefully examining the clothing worn by the children in the photo leads me to think it was possibly the late 1940’s or very early 1950’s. It is … [Read more...] about White Pine County: Then and Now

1978 - 2021 McGill Smelter Courtesy of Matt Liverani In today’s edition, we see a 1978 view looking north at the Kennecott smelter in McGill versus what the property looked like in 2021. Originally built in 1907, the first shipment of blister copper was sent out only one year later. Over the years, the smelter complex grew as smelting processes improved and … [Read more...] about White Pine County: Then & Now