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Leadington was platted in 1895, soon after lead mining began at the town site. [4] A post office called Leadington was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1966. [ 5 ]
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]
In Missouri, cities are classified into three types: 3rd Class, 4th Class, and those under constitutional charters. A few older cities are incorporated under legislative charters (Carrollton, Chillicothe, LaGrange, Liberty, Miami, Missouri City, and Pleasant Hill) which are no longer allowed.
St. Francois County (/ ˈ f r æ n s ɪ s / FRAN-siss) is a county in the Lead Belt region in the U.S. state of Missouri.At the 2020 census, the population was 66,922. [1] The largest city and county seat is Farmington. [2]
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Leadington, Missouri; Leadwood, Missouri; P. Park Hills, Missouri This page was last edited on 14 September 2011, at 02:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
By the 20th century, Old Mines was the only area of Missouri where Missouri French remained widely spoken. Linguists began studying the dialect at this time. W. M. Miller, an American professor of French, made investigations in the area in the late 1920s, and reported that the local French dialect was an entirely spoken language.