Missouri Miner's Memorial - Park Hills, MO
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Wampa-One
N 37° 50.239 W 090° 30.547
15S E 719192 N 4190689
Located at Missouri Mines State Historic Site
Waymark Code: WM6KNB
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/16/2009
Views: 6
A pink granite monument in the shape of the State of Missouri. Engraved with the image of a miner above the grave of a fellow miner. This state park was formerly the St. Joseph Lead Co. in the Old Lead Belt of Southeast Missouri, which is part of the premier lead mining district of the world. This memorial is in remembrance of the 200 workers who lost their lives just doing their job during the 66 years of this facility's operation, as well as those who have died mining statewide.
"Dedicated to those miners who lost their lives in the mining industries of Missouri."
Presented by Mineral Area Elks No. 2583 October 7, 1989
Remembrance of life shall continue.
"We are not dead until we are forgotten"
Sector of the workforce: Mining
Created or Donated by which group: Mineral Area Elks No. 2583
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