We took a road trip in 2014 that covered a few different sites in Missouri. One of these was the Missouri Mines State Historic Site which is an old lead mine that is no longer in operation and turned into a museum. The mine’s former powerhouse has been turned into a museum that interprets the area’s lead mining history, displays actual machinery from the mines and houses one of the Midwest’s finest mineral collections.
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This is a big area that you can walk around and look at the different buildings. At the time we visited, a large part of the buildings was closed off to the public. They were working on expanding the museum to other buildings so that you could see how the mine worked.
When you enter the museum, they have a large display of equipment that was used in the underground mining operation.
I found it very interesting to see how the equipment was engineered so that they could fit inside the small mine shafts. I am just under six foot, and you can see how tight of an area that they had to work with at that time. Many of them did not look very comfortable to be sitting on for those long shifts that they had to work under ground.
You can see that there is not much room to sit and move around while you are operating them.
These machines are a portable power supply and air compressor that could be moved in the mine where they were needed to run the equipment.
These are a few of the different boring machines that they had on display.
We were very glad that we went to see this museum. As you can see from the pictures it looked like it was just a rundown place. But we found it very informative and we learned a lot there.
We ended up spending more time looking at the equipment than we thought. We feel that you will enjoy your visit also.
As always leave us a comment below if you have been there as we would love to hear your experiences there.
To learn more, you can visit their site here.
Web Site : Missouri Mines State Historic Site
