Tintic Smelter Site
Tintic Smelter Site | |
| NRHP reference No. | 79003472[1] |
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| Added to NRHP | March 14, 1979 |
The Tintic Smelter Site, located off U.S. Route 6 near Silver City, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[1]
Description
The site is one of few legacies of historic Silver City, a mining boom town in the 1870s.[2]
The site is described as being an "approximately five acre site containing slag and tailings dumps, as well as remnants of the concrete foundations of the Tintic Smelter and Tintic Mill." The Tintic Smelter was "built in 1908, dismantled in 1915, and replaced that year by the Tintic Mill.
It was described as significant for aiding "in the documentation of the history of smelters and mills in
The Sunbeam Mine and the Silver City Cemetery, both also associated with Silver City, were also listed on the National Register on the same day.[1]
It was listed on the NRHP March 14, 1979.[1]
See also
- Tintic Standard Reduction Mill, in Genola, Utah County, also known as "Tintic Mill"
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Juab County, Utah
References
- ^ a b c d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tintic Smelter Site". National Park Service. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
- ^ Philip. F. Notarianni (October 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Historic Resources of the Tintic Mining District". National Park Service. Retrieved June 12, 2019. (Linked text is extract from full document here. Tintic Smelter Site covered at page 2 in appendix: Individual Sites in the Tintic Multi Resource District. With accompanying photo of smelter site from 1977.
External links
Media related to Tintic Smelter Site at Wikimedia Commons
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