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  Pre-mining preparations for the James Kinney Farmstead main house, showing braces in the basement entry. These braces are intended to keep the entry from collapsing from the pressure of the cables and the movement of the earth due to the mining process. The paint on the basement door is the original paint used when the house was built in 1863.

 

 
   
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