First Lead Mine in the Mississippi Valley - Mine La Motte, MO - Missouri Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This tablet marks the site of the first lead mine opened in the Mississippi Valley about the year 1700. It is named for Antoine de la Motte Cadillac, Governor of Louisiana 1710-1717. Erected December 7, 1933 by the State Society Daughters of the American Colonists and the John Forster Chapter founded by Katharine Forster Cayce.


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Mine La Motte is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Missouri, United States. It is located about six miles north of Fredericktown. The town was named for a nearby mine dating from about 1717; the mine was named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, an early explorer and Governor-General of Louisiana. The presence of lead, which was a critical ingredient for ammunition, attracted unusually early mining by the Spanish and French in this otherwise remote interior region of the North American continent. (visit link)

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