A black and white photo postcard of Jiggerville, circa 1905. View is looking southeast. The Junction Shaft is near the five tall smokestacks. The Shattuck Shaft is on the extreme left center. The Saginaw Shaft is barely visible in the far-left background. Note: most of the streets are only paths. Gold Hill is on the far right. The postcard is unused, and the publisher is unknown. Annie Larkin Collection.

Jiggerville was once one of the outlying subdivisions near Lowell that housed miners and their families. It’s odd sounding name comes from the mining term Jigger boss which was a foreman who would rat out miners if he thought that they weren’t working hard enough. Jiggerville was among the communities that had to be demolished to make way for the expanding Lavender pit. One of its former famous residents was actor Earl Hindman who had a recurring role playing Wilson on the sitcom “Home Improvement”. When reminiscing on Jiggerville he said: “when I heard they’d found a big copper vein in Jiggerville and leveled the town, I cried. That was the year I found out that Santa Clause didn’t exist and Jiggerville was gone. It was a traumatic year.”

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