No. 1688, Gaoke East Road, Pudong new district, Shanghai, China.
No. 1688, Gaoke East Road, Pudong new district, Shanghai, China.
Although southwestern Wisconsin is best known today for its rich farmlands, place names such as Mineral Point and New Diggings evoke an earlier time when local mines produced much of the nation's lead. Lead brought thousands of miners into Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s.
Although southwestern Wisconsin is best known today for its rich farmlands, place names such as Mineral Point and New Diggings evoke an earlier time when local mines produced much of the …
Our exhibits focus on the history of mining and the people of Platteville and Grant County. Exhibits in the Mining Museum building trace the development of lead and zinc mining in the Upper …
The U.S. began to lease lead mining rights in Wisconsin in 1822, and miners flooded into southwestern Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s, many from Missouri which had experienced …
Most notably, visitors can enter the Bevans lead mine: an excavated former lead mine from the 1840s. The mining industry shaped Platteville into a vibrant community with an enduring …
The Badger Mine and Museum tells Wisconsin's rich mining story in a fascinating way: it allows visitors to enter an actual mine that was hand-dug nearly 200 years ago. It's an experience like …
The maps build on digitized information about mine shafts, open-pit mines, smelters, abandoned rail lines and other features from the 150-year history of mining for lead and zinc in …
By 1829, more than 4,000 miners worked in southwestern Wisconsin, producing 13 million pounds of lead a year. During the 1820s, lead was discovered around the Fever River (now the …
Formal, large-scale mining operations in Wisconsin were established in the 1820s. Lead was one of the key reasons the United States government wanted to expand into the area that is now …
Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties were once the center of a lead-mining boom. Indians had sold lead to early traders, but there were few white miners here in 1820. (A …
