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Cardin Tar Creek mining camp
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Old bottlesAlso reported: Wheat cents, Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, miners' tools, lamp parts.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1913-2010 lead and zinc mining town
Cardin began as the Tar Creek mining camp in 1913 and was platted on a Quapaw allotment in 1918, holding 2,640 people in 1920, many of them mine workers. Inside the Tar Creek Superfund site, it was emptied by a federal buyout and its population reached zero in November 2010.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
mine shafts and subsidenceLead-contaminated soil and water
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