County: Cherokee

Date: 1980s

Photographer: Jim McCauley/KGS

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Short description: Contaminated streambeds near Galena in Cherokee County. The discovery of zinc ore near Galena in 1870 marked the beginning of a century of lead and zinc mining in the area.

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