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Historic Sites: Pendarvis

On a Quest for Buried Treasure

With their eyes on the prize — rich veins of lead and zinc ore — they crossed the atlantic and trundled across largely uncharted wilds of the Wisconsin Territory with little else but the knowledge that they were the best hard-rock miners in the world. As they planted their roots here, they transplanted their Old World culture in rich Wisconsin earth. At Pendarvis, little has changed since their arrival.

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