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Tar Creek is an area of 1,188 square miles located in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, within the Tri-State district of lead and zinc mining in Northeastern Oklahoma, Southwestern Missouri, and Southeastern Kansas. The first mining took place in Missouri around 1850. By 1908, sites had been started in Miami, Picher, and Commerce. The construction of ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in South Carolina designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations
Treece is a ghost town in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, [1] and part of the historic Tri-State Mining District. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 138. [3] As of May 2012 the city was abandoned and most buildings and other facilities demolished due to pervasive problems with lead pollution resulting from past mining.
December 4, 2009 (Old Canton Rd. and GA 372: Ball Ground: 2: Canton Commercial Historic District: Canton Commercial Historic District: January 12, 1984 (Roughly bounded by Main, Church, Archer, and Marietta Sts.
Cherokee County is located in the US state of Georgia. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 266,620. [1] [2] The county seat is Canton. [3] The county Board of Commissioners is the governing body, with members elected to office. Cherokee County is included in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.
Cherokee County is the name of eight counties in the United States: Cherokee County, Alabama; Cherokee County, Georgia; Cherokee County, Iowa; Cherokee County, Kansas;
The Trail of Tears march began in Cherokee County approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from where Sixes Mine is located. After the Cherokee Nation was driven off their land, the Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 took place, which granted 40-acre (160,000 m 2 ) plots of land to Georgia residents who were fortunate enough to win the lottery.
The Phipps Site is located on the banks of Mill Creek in Cherokee County, occupying a broad terrace about 10 feet (3.0 m) above the typical water level of the creek. The principal feature of the site is a long and deep refuse midden, which, despite losses to plowing and erosion, still contained artifacts to a depth of more than 8 feet (2.4 m ...