Mindoro Cut

Mindoro Cut
Looking north
Mindoro Cut is located in Wisconsin
Mindoro Cut
Mindoro Cut is located in the United States
Mindoro Cut
LocationCTH C, bet. Mindoro and West Salem, Town of Farmington, Wisconsin
Built1908
ArchitectMiller, Louis A.
NRHP reference No.07000428 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 15, 2007

Mindoro Cut is a cut in the Town of Farmington in La Crosse County, Wisconsin,[2] which carries County Trunk Highway C through Phillips Ridge, linking Mindoro with West Salem. The cut is 74 feet (23 m) deep, 86 feet (26 m) long, and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide; it is the second-deepest cut built by hand in the Western Hemisphere and the oldest functional cut which has not been improved upon.[3] Work on the cut began in 1907 and concluded in 1908; the project was completed primarily with hand tools. The Mindoro Cut was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Mindoro Cut - Then and Now". Town of Farmington. Retrieved December 22, 2011.
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