Granby lead mines and smelter
Lead mines, Granby, Missouri.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Lead mines
- Where
- Granby, Missouri
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
GRANBY LEAD MINES
The Granby Mining and Smelting Company, formed in 1857, smelted lead from the galena mines of a boom town. Union and Confederate troops held it at different times during the war. The Confederates finally blew up the furnaces to keep them out of Union hands.
Then
The Granby Mining and Smelting Company, formed in 1857, smelted lead from the galena mines of a boom town of more than 8,000 people by 1859. Union and Confederate troops held it at different times during the war.
The Confederates finally blew up the furnaces to keep them out of Union hands. The company was reorganized after the war by Henry Taylor Blow.
Now
Built over
Mining ended in the early 1950s, and virtually no chat piles are left in Granby.
Lines owned by BNSF run through Granby today.
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