Fort Hamilton
He was born in New York, August 4, 1797. (A historical marker located in Wiota in Lafayette County, Wisconsin.) HMdb: THE HISTORICAL MARKER DATABASE "Bite-Size Bits of Local, National, and Global History" ... on July 4, 1827. In 1828, he started lead mining and smelting at Hamilton Diggings. Col. Hamilton was a prominent citizen of this ...
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Lead-Safe Wisconsin
Lead-Safe Wisconsin. Lead damages the brain and other bodily systems—and its effects can last a lifetime. While lead can hurt anyone, the health effects of lead exposure are particularly damaging for kids under 6. Lead poisoning among children is typically caused by swallowing or breathing in dust from lead-based paint in homes that were ...
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Lead and Zinc Mine | Photograph | Wisconsin …
b City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State Mining District." An underground view is shown of the mine with a group of …
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Lead-Mining Towns of Southwest Wisconsin
East of the Mississippi River, and just north of the Illinois-Wisconsin border, the soil was once fertile with huge deposits of lead and zinc. White men discovered these riches in the early 1800s, well before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Miners, farmers, and merchants flocked to the region, some bringing along their families. Towns with names like Snake Digs, Cottonwood, …
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Mining Art And Adventure In Mineral Point, Wisconsin, A Town …
It's filled with small but sturdy stone buildings built in the 1800s when this was a lead mining boomtown. Today Mineral Point booms with creativity, drawing artists and art lovers from around the world - you can't walk more than a few steps down High Street without passing an art gallery or bumping into an accomplished potter or renowned ...
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History of Our Town
Native American women first mined these minerals in the 1600s to trade with French fur traders. In the 1800s, lead ore paid quick rewards to prospectors and adventurers who swarmed the hills and dug out crude, temporary caves for homes that resembled badger holes – the provenance of Wisconsin's nickname, The Badger State.
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Mining in Northern Wisconsin
But in the 1840s three forces drew settlers into Northern Wisconsin. First, lead mining in the south decreased. D eposits were exhausted and mining experts began to look elsewhere for new resources. Second, the discovery of gold in …
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Explore A Former Lead Mine At Badger Mine And …
While Wisconsin once produced about half of the nation's supply of lead, the lead mining era ended as quickly as it began. By the 1840s the easily accessible lead had been mined and more profitable mining opportunities …
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Lead and Zinc Mining
b City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State Mining District." Caption reads: "Lead and Zinc Mining View - Webb City, MO."
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Lead Mining Towns of Southwest Wisconsin|Paperback
East of the Mississippi River, and just north of the Illinois-Wisconsin border, the soil was once fertile with huge deposits of lead and zinc. White men discovered these riches in the early 1800s, well before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Miners, farmers, and merchants flocked to the region, some bringing along their families.
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A Mining History Charted in Soil – GROW magazine
Lead mining began in the state's Driftless Area in the 1820s and quickly grew. In the second half of the century, the focus shifted to zinc, which is a less harmful metal but one that also contains lead in its ore. Mining of both metals left behind a toxic legacy. ... Lead and Wisconsin go back a long way. Although explorers and fur trappers ...
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Lead Mining in Southwestern Wisconsin
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.
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SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN WISCONSIN HISTORY
Lead mining brought the first heavy influx of settlers and ended the dominance of the fur trade in the economy of the area. The lead ... Wisconsin Blue Book 2023–2024 1800s 1804. William Henry Harrison's treaty with Indians at St. Louis extinguished Indian title to land in the lead region, which eventually became a contributing cause of the ...
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Rewriting the Toxic Mining History of Wisconsin
Dodgeville is a coal mining town in Wisconsin. As the mining industry expanded during the 1820s, the environment was left on the backburner. Unusable lead and zinc ore was simply left on the ground. "[Piles of ore] could still be seen up …
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Mapping the toxic legacy of mining: Scientists reveal areas to …
Aside from such relics there are few visible markers of the lead and zinc mining industry that defined southwestern Wisconsin in the 1800s and early 1900s. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL ... an expert in land reclamation and Wisconsin's lead and zinc mining history, stands on the grounds of a former lead processing site in Dodgeville. At left is a ...
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Wisconsin-Mines
By 1828, mining had spread north into southwestern Wisconsin, where more extensive lead deposits were found near Mineral Point and by 1829, more than 4,000 miners worked in …
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Mapping the toxic legacy of mining: Scientists reveal areas to …
Aside from such relics there are few visible markers of the lead and zinc mining industry that defined southwestern Wisconsin in the 1800s and early 1900s. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL "The getting was good on the surface initially," said Tom Hunt, a retired UW-Platteville professor of land resource management.
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Platteville's Mining History
The Platteville lead boom spanned from 1827 to 1849, bringing diverse groups of people and the mining industry to what would later become southwest Wisconsin. In 1827, galena (lead ore) was discovered in Platteville by frontiersmen …
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CONTENTdm
The History of Potosi: This article summarizes the origins of Potosi, which developed after Captain John Shaw (dates unverified) discovered lead mines in the area in 1815. Originally called Snake Hollow, Potosi was one of the first towns in Grant County to be incorporated and was the largest settlement in the western part of Wisconsin during the mid-1800s, due to an influx of English …
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Iron Mining in Wisconsin | Wisconsin Historical Society
The major iron mining area from the mid-1880s to the mid-1960s was the Gogebic Iron Range, which extends for 80 miles from Lake Gogebic in Michigan to Lake Namekagon in Wisconsin. Forty-five of the 70.7 million tons of ore produced from the Gogebic Iron Range in Wisconsin came from the Cary Mine near Hurley and the Montreal Mine at Montreal.
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Lead Mining in Southwestern Wisconsin
In the early nineteenth century, Wisconsin lead mining was more promising and attractive to potential settlers than either the fur trade or farming. Its potentially quick rewards lured a …
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Wisconsin Lead Region
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. Mining brought in a large part of the 37,000 population …
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Badger Mine and Museum
Visit Badger Mine and Museum situated in Badger Park in picturesque Shullsburg located at the center of SW Wisconsin's lead mining region and experience first hand the daily routine of an 1850's lead miner. During the guided museum tour, view the primitive tools he used to extract his lead treasure from the earth and learn about his life in ...
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Mining in southwestern WisconsinWisconsin
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 …
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Wisconsin Sand and Gravel Mining: From Nineteenth …
The lead miners of southwestern Wisconsin helped shape the state's settlement patterns, trans-portation networks, and economy. However, lead mining peaked in the 1840s, as miners exhausted easily accessible deposits and national demand slowed.4 Although lead mining in Wisconsin ul-timately extended into the twentieth century and
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VISITOR'S GUIDE
Wisconsin's Lead and Zinc Mining Past. MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN. LEAD TRAIL LOOP • Stations 1-7. 1/2 Mile, 30 Minute Walk. The Land. Mining ... The second half of the 1800s saw the rise of zinc mining in Mineral Point. The Cornish miners were joined by Irish, Germans, African Americans, and Italians. Lead and zinc made Mineral Point a
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Incidents in the Early History of the Wisconsin Lead Mines
D. J. Gardner, Incidents in the Early History of the Wisconsin Lead Mines, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Sep., 1922), pp. 42-48
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Lead, Slaver, andy BlackPersonhood Wisconsin
a quick glance at the coat of arms of wisconsin (left) illustrates the surprising significance of lead mining and slavery in Wisconsin's history. The figure on the left is a white Great Lakes sailor. The figure on the right is a white lead miner; he stands holding a pickaxe next to a pyramid of thirteen seventy-pound ingots of lead.
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HISTORY
The history of Wisconsin's third oldest community, from lead mining to a Dominican missionary priest and vernacular architecture. ... As early as 1818, founder Jesse Shull and other American settlers were mining lead in the vicinity to be known as Shullsburg. As lore has it, Shull—a trader working for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ...
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