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The location was a subject of extensive coal mining in the first half of the 20th Century, and a railway, eventually called the Poteau and Cavanal Mountain Railroad, served the mines. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The summit elevation of the hill is 2,385 feet (727 m) above sea level, [ 13 ] while the hill rises 1,960 feet (600 m) above the Poteau River on the ...
Potosi is a city in Washington County, Missouri, United States. Potosi is seventy-two miles southwest of St. Louis. The population was 2,538 as of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. [4] Located in the Lead Belt, the city was founded in 1763 by French colonists as Mine à Breton or Mine au Breton.
Washington County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 23,514. [1] The county seat and largest city is Potosi. [2] The county was officially organized on August 21, 1813, and was named in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United ...
Cerro Rico del Potosí, the first image of Potosi in Europe. Pedro Cieza de León, 1553 View of the imperial city of Potosí in 1758 by Gaspar Miguel de Berrío. Museum of Charcas. [9] Entrance of Archbishop Viceroy Morcillo in Potosí by Melchor Pérez de Holguín, 1716. Painting located at Museo of the Americas (Spain).
Potosi Mountain (Nevada), U.S. Potosí mountain range or Cordillera de Potosí, to the southeast of the city of Potosí, Bolivia; Potosi Peak, in the Sneffels Range, Colorado, US; Cerro de Potosí, a mountain near the city of Potosí, Bolivia, also known as Cerro Rico; a Spanish colonial mining site; Cerro Potosí, a mountain in Nuevo León, Mexico
A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
It is located approximately eight miles northeast of Potosi. The community was named for the barite ore found here, also known as "tiff". [2] The community was founded as a company town in the early 1900s by John Cambel to house miners for his South East Missouri Barytes Company. [3] A post office called Tiff has been in operation since 1905. [4]
Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, [3] near Mineral Point. [4] The facility currently houses 800 death row, maximum security and high-risk male inmates. [citation needed] The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison.