The former lead-and-zinc boomtown was largely abandoned after severe mining contamination, subsidence and a devastating 2008 tornado. It is historically compelling but environmentally hazardous; view from lawful public roads and never climb chat piles or enter abandoned structures.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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