America's First Lead Disaster

Before stumbling upon this place I had never heard of Smeltertown. A Place once nestled here right on the Mexican Border. What I didn’t know at the time I stumbled upon this sma;ll mark on a map was the backstory about this forgotten place. What I found out shocked me. This was the location of Americas first known lead disaster.
In 1910 the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) set up a lead and copper smelter here in the desert. And it would take more than six decades for the truth about Smeltertown to come out.
But what really happened here?

[@TheJeffMiller]

Fascinating stuff. ASARCO operated a plant here in Omaha for over 100 years. It was closed back in the 90's, and the land (right on the Missouri River) was cleaned up and redeveloped.

[@forgottenworld]

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[@TheJeffMiller]

@@forgottenworld I can only speak for myself, but my first reaction to your comment was this: Have you seen Walter Kirn's new newspaper Country Highway? Really good stuff. I think you could do worse than reading through the back-issues (it's brand new, so IIRC there are only three issues to review) and making your channel "Country Highway, but in video"".

[@Idrinklight44]

Surprised this isn't in Missouris' lead district.

[@Michael-ud5og]

Its called a cemetary. I dont understand your surprise. Cemetaries are everywhere

[@forgottenworld]

I was surprised by how it was cutoff by the highway and abandoned. Then I learned its back story.