Although southwestern Wisconsin is best known today for its rich farmlands, place names such as Mineral Point, Hardscrabble, New Diggings, Black Jack and Lead Mine evoke an earlier time when local mines produced much of the …
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By 1829, more than 4,000 miners working in southwestern Wisconsin produced 13 million pounds of lead a year. In the 1830s, experienced miners began arriving from Cornwall, in southwestern England. Wisconsin lead mining peaked in the 1840s, when the state's mines yielded more than half the national lead output.
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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 Wisconsin. Lead was an essential resource used to make a wide range of products.
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272 Wisconsin Historical Collections [voi.vi gaged in the manufacture of white lead, it became necessary for me to visit St. Louis, to purchase a stock of pig lead. On arriving there, I learned that Col. James Johnson, of Ken¬ tucky, was fitting out an expedition to work the lead mines on Pever river, on the east side of the Mississippi.
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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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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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In the early 1800s, the attraction of Wisconsin lead mining brought thousands of settlers to Grant, Crawford, Iowa, and Lafayette counties in Southwest Wisconsin. By 1829, there were more than 4,000 miners in …
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1872] Wisconsin Lead Region 271 Early History of Lead Region of Wisconsin By Moses Meeker * After much delay, I commence to write, at the request of the Historical Society, the early history of the Lead Mining Region of Wisconsin, which will necessarily embrace much of my own history, having been connected with almost all the early transactions in this section of the country.
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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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In this 25-page memoir, one of the earliest Wisconsin lead miners recounts his life in the Lead Region in the early 1820's. Meeker arrived in 1823 and brought his family the next year. He here describes how lead was discovered, smelted …
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In the early 19th century, lead mining was more promising and attractive to potential settlers of the southwestern corner of the state than either the fur trade or farming. The presence of lead was …
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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 a similar lead boom a few years earlier.
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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 Mississippi Valley Lead and Zinc District from its beginnings in the 1820s until active mining ceased in 1979.
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Exterior of a badger-type early Wisconsin lead mine. How to View in Person. To view this image, visit the Archives Research Room on the 4th floor at the Society Headquarters building in Madison, WI.
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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 this early mining town before Wisconsin achieved statehood. Next, as you follow your guide, down 51 steps into this unique hand dug 19th century mine, take into your nostrils the smells this 1850s miner smelled ...
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Europeans had known of the presence of lead ore in the upper Mississippi since the 17th century. For hundreds of years, the Ho-Chunk, Mesquaki (Fox), Sauk and other Indian tribes had mined its easily accessible lead. French fur trader Nicolas Perrot began trading in lead mined by …
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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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In the early 19th century, lead mining was more promising and attractive to potential settlers of the southwestern corner of the state than either the fur trade or farming. The presence of lead was no secret.
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In this 25-page memoir, one of the earliest Wisconsin lead miners recounts his life in the Lead Region in the early 1820's. Meeker arrived in 1823 and brought his family the next year. He here describes how lead was discovered, smelted and traded, as well as relating several stories about his interactions with Ho-Chunk, Sauk and Fox Indians
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Mining of lead in southwestern Wisconsin can be traced back to at least 1670. These notes by the Society's second director are a chronological summary of sources describing lead mining before the great boom of the 1830's.
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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 Wisconsin. Lead was an essential resource …
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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 Mississippi Valley Lead and Zinc District from its …
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Source: Digital Atlas of Historic Mining Activity in Southwestern Wisconsin (Pepp et al., 2019). from publication: Effect of childhood proximity to lead mining on late life cognition ...
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The lead mining industry of the 1830s and 1840s brought miners from Cornwall, England, a county of South West England, to southwestern Wisconsin. ... Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass. Wisc Historical Society, …
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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 steady stream of settlers up the Mississippi River and into Grant, Crawford, Iowa, and Lafayette counties in the early nineteenth century.
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Mining of lead in southwestern Wisconsin can be traced back to at least 1670. These notes by the Society's second director are a chronological summary of sources describing lead mining before the great boom of the 1830's.
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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 could be found in other states; the California Gold Rush lured a lot of Wisconsin miners west.
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The lead mining boom was on, and Mineral Point became a thriving commercial center that housed one of Michigan Territory's first land offices and served as a territorial county seat. The boom continued into early Wisconsin statehood, when lead and zinc mining and processing became the dominant economic activity in the region.
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In the early 1800s, the attraction of Wisconsin lead mining brought thousands of settlers to Grant, Crawford, Iowa, and Lafayette counties in Southwest Wisconsin. By 1829, there were more than 4,000 miners in Southwest Wisconsin, producing 13 million pounds of lead a year—more than half of the nation's lead.
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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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