Lead

Another cute little town that would be great to explore if we’d had enough time. Historically, it was officially founded in 1876 after the discovery of gold and said to be named after the “leads or lodes of the deposits of valuable ores.” This is the site of the Homestake Mine, which is said to be the largest, deepest and most productive gold mine in the Western Hemisphere before it closed in 2002.

Today, Lead is known for one of the deepest underground labs in the US where multiple experiments are conducted in the areas of dark matter and neutrino (the most abundant particles that have mass in the universe) physics research, biology, geology and engineering.Read more