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The Kennedy Tailing Wheels, four giant wooden wheels 58 feet in diameter, were built in 1912 to control tailings from the nearby
Kennedy Mine; together they could move 500 tons per day
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They are so beautiful to look at in the tree covered background with a park setting. The wheels worked twenty-four hours a day,
from December of 1914 to 1942 with few stoppages, each day lifting 850 tons of waste up and over the hills. When the Kennedy Mine closed in 1942, the corrugated iron buildings which
had enclosed the four wheels were torn down for scrap. Suddenly, four looming wooden wheels appeared on Jackson's horizon, much to the delight of later day artists
and photographers.
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If you look close you can see the Kennedy Mine in the back ground. The wheels are located in the Jackson Kennedy Wheels City Park,
north of town about a mile along Jackson Gate Road. Two wheels have fallen since they were uncovered in 1942, Wheel #3 in 1963, and Wheel #2 in 1970. Recently steps have been taken by
local citizens, county and city officials to help preserve the last two standing wheels.
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