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Silver Mine is an unincorporated community in northwest Madison County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community is on Missouri Route D about five miles southwest of Oak Grove on US Route 72. The Silver Mine Recreation Area on the St. Francois River is two miles (3.2 km) east.
The state park was acquired in 1926 and is named for Missouri governor Sam Aaron Baker who encouraged the development of the park in his home county.In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps added many structures to the park including the park office and visitors center, which was originally used as a stable, the stone dining lodge, most of the park's cabins, and the backpacking shelters ...
Missouri Mines State Historic Site: St. Francois: 25 acres 10 ha: 1976 Missouri State Capitol: Cole: 3 acres 1.2 ha: 1826 Missouri State Museum: Cole: n/a: n/a: 1923 Osage Village State Historic Site: Vernon: 100 acres 40 ha: 1984 Sandy Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site: Jefferson: 205.78 acres 83.28 ha: 1968 Sappington Cemetery State ...
The state park includes the Missouri Mines State Historic Site with its former St. Joe Minerals mill buildings and museum of geology and mining. [5] The park features a 2,000-acre (810 ha) off-road vehicle (ORV) riding area located on the old lead mine tailings dumps, camping facilities, and trails for hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding. [4]
The formal geological name for the Lead Belt is the "Southeastern Missouri Mississippi Valley-type Mineral District". It contains the highest concentration of galena (lead(II) sulfide) in the world [2] as well as significant economic quantities of zinc, copper and silver and currently mined sub-economic quantities of metals such as cadmium, nickel and cobalt. [2]
It is named for author Mark Twain, a Missouri native. The MTNF covers 3,068,800 acres (12,419 km 2) of which 1,506,100 acres (6,095 km 2) is public owned, 78,000 acres (320 km 2) of which are Wilderness, and National Scenic River area. MTNF spans 29 counties and represents 11% of all forested land in Missouri.
Silver Mine, Missouri, an unincorporated community; Silvermine River, in Norwalk and New Canaan, Connecticut This page was last edited on 27 ...
Finger Lakes State Park is a public recreation area consisting of 1,138 acres (461 ha) in Boone County near the city of Columbia, Missouri, and adjacent to the Rocky Fork Lakes Conservation Area. The state park is unusual in that the site was reclaimed after having been strip mined for coal . [ 4 ]