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Hockerville zinc 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 and Roosevelt dimes, miners' tools, carbide lamps.
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
1918-1960s lead and zinc mining town
Hockerville was a Tri-State District mining community just south of the Kansas line, with at least 18 mines around it in 1918 and 550 people in 1940. Zinc and lead mining continued into the late 1970s, leaving the area inside the contaminated Tar Creek Superfund site; its post office closed in 1963.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
mine shafts and subsidenceLead-contaminated chat and water
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