Globe Mine Rescue Station

Copper mining killed men in ways slow and sudden: cave-ins, fires, bad air, the long rot of dust in the lungs. Globe's mine rescue station, built around 1919, was the answer the industry finally organized, a base where trained crews kept breathing gear and drilled for the disasters that were only ever a matter of when. It sits near the Old Dominion works it served. Stations like this are easy to walk past, and they mark where the real cost of the ore was paid.

What the plaque says

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior Circa 1919.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oak Flat — 16 mi
  Chi'chil Bildagoteel — the Apache sacred ground a copper mine is set to swallow

More markers nearby

• Old Dominion Mine — steps away
• The Hanging Tree — 0.8 mi
• City of Globe — 1.0 mi
• Cobre Valley Center for the Arts — 1.0 mi