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The Picher Mining Field Museum, which had been housed in the former Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association building, was destroyed by arson in April 2015. The museum archives had previously been sent to Pittsburg State University, and other artifacts had been sent to the Baxter Springs, Kansas Heritage Center and Museum. [19]
The Brevard Museum of History & Natural Science is located at 2201 Michigan Avenue, Cocoa, Florida near Eastern Florida State College and the Johnnie Johnson Nature Trails. The Johnnie Johnson hiking trails are open 7 days a week so hikers can follow the trails to the Eastern Florida State College Planetarium and Travis Park. [ 2 ]
View of mines, plant, rail yard in Cardin, Oklahoma (1922) An unusual cluster of galena crystals from the Tri-State district. The gold-colored mineral is chalcopyrite. Size: 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm. The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The ...
Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste. Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ...
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The Miami Mineral Belt Railroad (MMBR) served the Miami and Picher lead mining areas in that portion of the Tri-state mining district located in far northeastern Oklahoma.It was closely associated with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) for its entire history, and was eventually absorbed into the Frisco.
A. D. Buck Museum of Science and History: Tonkawa: Kay: Red Carpet Country: Multiple: Birds and animals of North central Oklahoma, local history, located on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College: Afton Station Packard Museum: Afton: Ottawa: Green Country: Automotive: Includes a showroom, 18 Packards & other vintage automobiles, Route 66 ...
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).