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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1828/00/00 Late in 1828 three miners struck lead ore in outcroppings or shallow diggings (shallow holes were known as badger holes, from which came Wisconsin's nickname, the Badger State) in the hill directly east of Mineral Point.

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Particulars for Mineral Point Hill:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Cultural Affiliation Cornish-American
Area of Significance Engineering
Criteria Exemplar
Historic Use Extractive Facility
Area of Significance Industry
Sight Category Site



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 26th October 1972

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Mineral Point Hill
Registry Address: Roughly bounded by WI 23, Copper, Dodge, and Shake Rag Sts.
Registry Number: 72000054
Resource Type: Site
Owner: Private
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 50
Contributing Buildings: 1
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Industry, Engineering, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Cultural Affiliation: cornish
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1830, 1855, 1906
Historic Function: Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Extractive facility
Current Function: Agriculture, subsistence
Current Sub-Function: Agricultural fields

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