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The following undated photo shows Jennie Lee with her horse, Gypsy, in front of the Acme <br />Mine. She appears to be standing on Roosevelt. The trestle going over to the mine dump can be <br />clearly seen behind her. <br />Harry Mayor, who was born in Louisville in 1918, wrote the following about the Acme Mine <br />dump. It appeared in the Spring 2007 Louisville Historian. <br />[Main Street] began on the south at the Acme Mine dump. The dump formed a <br />barrier. It looked to us kids like a major mountain, but it was only about a <br />hundred feet high. You had to take a sharp right or left turn to continue on your <br />way. If you turned right [onto Elm] and then left [onto Roosevelt] you were on <br />the road to Superior and Eldorado Springs. <br />The road went through a tunnel which supported the track to the mine dump. <br />This track was used to pull a small car to the top of the dump to deposit all the <br />slate, stone, and poor -grade coal that was dug out of the entries and rooms <br />where the miners were working in the tunnels beneath the town. <br />14 <br />