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Ducktown Basin Museum and Burra Burra Mine

Ducktown, TN

The museum occupies the former headquarters of a copper-mining operation in a landscape once heavily damaged by smelting and deforestation. Mining artifacts, the Burra Burra Mine site and the basin's environmental recovery make this a stark industrial-history stop.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: ducktownbasinmuseum.com

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