Pendarvis
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 42.864, -90.173
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: The site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is made up of several 19th-century stone and timber cabins built by Cornish immigrants who came to Mineral Point to mine lead and zinc.
History
Pendarvis is a historic site located in Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is made up of several 19th-century stone and timber cabins built by Cornish immigrants who came to Mineral Point to mine lead and zinc. Today the site is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society and serves as a museum of Wisconsin's early lead mining history. Programs at the site also interpret the groundbreaking preservation work by Robert Neal and Edgar Hellum, begun during the Great Depression.