Comments on: Where Manhole Covers Come From http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/ stories about the suburbs, church, and home Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: Elaine http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-6257 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:53:02 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-6257 Hi there! Do you use Twitter? I’d like to follow you if that would be ok.

I’m absolutely enjoying your blog and look forward to new posts.

]]> By: Paper Cutter Love http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-2352 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:36:50 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-2352 […] written posts about manhole covers and our local No Swimming signs, and here I’m going to talk to you about paper cutters. I […]

]]> By: Joel Wegman http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-245 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:25:00 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-245 Nice shots Heidi!
“Where Manhole Covers Come From” can also be answered with the East Jordan Iron Works company in East Jordan, Michigan. This company’s cast iron manhole covers, sewer grates, fire hydrants and much more can be seen in cities and suburbs across the country. Usually marked with “East Jordon” or “EJIW”.
Like Neenah, EJIW is well over 100 years old. They got their start making industrial castings for the lumber and railroad industries in northern Michigan, hence their location in the middle of the Lower Peninsula on beautiful Lake Charlevoix. The lake gave them water transport access to the Great Lakes, bringing in iron ore and then letting them ship their products out by water.
You can still hike abandoned rail lines in the Upper Peninsula and see “EJIW” cast into the side of the rails….or spot a manhole cover in Florida with the same!

]]> By: don pilcher http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-241 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:26:02 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-241 And a word about why they are round. Almost any other shape can be turned to fit “through” itself and there goes your lid…ooops! They also roll easily this way; double winner.

]]> By: Jud Haverkamp http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-239 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:02:47 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-239 Next time you are in Minneapolis you must check out the manhole covers downtown. Some years ago the city commissioned an art project, inviting designs for the covers, and apart from the cold, it may be the best explanation for why Minneapolitans stroll down the sidewalk looking at their feet.

]]> By: Laura Jean http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-237 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:58:23 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-237 Interesting. Here in Nicaragua, we wonder where manhole covers *go to,* since the amount of metal actually makes them worth some money…

]]> By: Katherine Willis Pershey http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-236 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:54:42 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-236 Also, way to make photographs of manhole covers beautiful, Heidi.

]]> By: Katherine Willis Pershey http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/where-manhole-covers-come-from/#comment-235 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:54:21 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=855#comment-235 Oh my goodness, SUPER cool!!

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