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| Come play in the past! This historic town was born of the 1876 Gold Rush. North America's largest producing gold mine still operates in Lead. The Homestake Gold Mine and Black Hills Mining Museum trace Lead's history of mining. | |
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Tour the surface workings of the largest operating gold
mine in the Western hemisphere. See giant hoists, ore crushing and processing
and view the open cut surface mine. On-site gift shop. Free ore samples.
Open year-round. Located in Lead's City Park, 160 W. Main, PO Box 887,
Lead, South Dakota 57754. It is a family approved attraction.
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Lead is the only town in the Hills to prosper from the frontier gold rush to the present on earnings from "gold diggers." Pronounced "Leed," the name is a mining term. Prospectors would follow an outcropping of gold ore, hoping it would "lead" them to the mother lode. | |
