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| Community: | Wyoming |
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| County: | Iowa |
| Historic Name: | Shot Tower |
| Reference Number: | 73000080 |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of a map drawn to indicate a mine on land owned by Mineral Point Mining Co. in the lead region of southwestern Wisconsin. |
| The Birth of the Badgers |
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| Discover the history of lead mining in Wisconsin, and the origin of Badgers. |
| Date: | 1927-07-03 |
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| County: | Iowa |
| City: | Dodgeville |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Large brick kiln-like structure in field. Built in 1876, the blast furnace was used to salvage additional lead from the slag of 18 area furnaces operating ... |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This early to mid-19th century map shows the township and range system, sections, landownership, furnaces, lead mines, copper mines, and roads in the vicin... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | The home of J. Hutchinson, originally built by John B. Terry and consisting of just the first story. Terry came to the lead region in 1829 as a merchant an... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An outdoor exhibit, possibly at Tower Hill State Park, with a display featuring a "pig of lead" found near the shot tower there. There is also a bronze pla... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of three-quarter view from front of Grace Church. A double door entrance at the sidewalk level is flanked by stone steps that lead up to a... |
| Pendarvis - a historic site |
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| Learn about the lives of immigrant Cornish miners in the 1830s and 1840s during the Wisconsin Territory's lead-mining boom. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a marker commemorating Old Helena. |
| Community: | Mineral Point |
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| County: | Iowa |
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| Reference Number: | 64578 |
| Community: | Dodgeville |
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| County: | Iowa |
| Historic Name: | BENNETT AND HOSKINS SLAG FURNACE |
| Reference Number: | 30367 |
| Community: | Wyoming |
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| County: | Iowa |
| Historic Name: | Shot Tower (Daniel Whitney, Platte and Co.) |
| Reference Number: | 16189 |
| Community: | Mineral Point |
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| County: | Iowa |
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| Reference Number: | 61822 |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a farm, with farmhouse, barn, outbuildings, and fences. The photograph appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Le... |
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