The Holmen Historical Society could not have picked a better time to schedule a talk by Joan and John Dolbier on the Mindoro Cut. This year — 2008 — marks the 100th anniversary of the Mindoro Cut, the ...
Ninety-nine years ago this month a crew of workers carrying picks, axes, shovels and wheelbarrows climbed a hill outside Mindoro and started digging at the rock. The old road to the cheese factory in ...
If you believe politics are connected to everything, then the story of the Mindoro Cut — the second-deepest hand-hewn cut in the Western Hemisphere — is straight forward. In the early 1900s Gov.