Bonne terre, missouri map
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Bonneterre Formation
Upper Cambrian geologic formation
The Bonneterre Formation is an Upper Cambriangeologic formation which outcrops in the St. Francois Mountains of the MissouriOzarks. The Bonneterre is a major host rock for the leadores of the Missouri Lead Belt.
Description
The formation is dominantly dolomite with areas or layers of pure limestone. A shaley or glauconitic zone occurs in the lower portion and the base contains sand and conglomerate or breccia where the formation overlaps the Lamotte and lies directly on the granite of the mountain core.
Stratigraphy
Early geologists offered a variety of names for what is now known as the Bonneterre Formation. In 1894, Missouri state geologist Arthur Winslow proposed St. Francois limestone as a name for thick limestone beds, including everything between what are now known as the Lamotte Sandstone and the St. Peter Sandstone. He described the lower part of that formation (now comprising the Bonneterre and the Elvins Group) separately as the St. Joseph limestone.Charles Rollin Keyes's Fredericktown lime
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BONNE TERRE — A Bonne Terre History and Families book is being compiled before the city’s celebration of its sesquicentennial -150th anniversary in 2014.
The Bonne Terre Historical Society is sponsoring, and compiling “Bonne Terre, Missouri History & Families.” Acclaim Press of Morley, Missouri, which is also publishing a Washington County history book, will be publishing it.
The book will contain material from 1825 to 2012 and will be approximately 200 to 300 pages. Books can be purchased for $54.95 and should be available in 2012. Shipping is $6 if needed.
Anyone who lives in Bonne Terre, even if they just recently moved to the county, can submit their family history in third-person (pronouns such as he, she, they) with information such as when the family came to Bonne Terre, where they came from. Other things that may be included are interesting childhood stories, as well as marriages, children, jobs, education, and organizations participated in.
Submissions should be 500 words or less. There will be a charge of 15 cents a word for words over 500. The submissions sh
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Bonne Terre, Missouri
City in Missouri, United States
Bonne Terre (bon-TAIR) is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States with a population of 6,864 at the 2010 census. Situated in the Southeast Missouri Lead District, lead mining shaped the history and character of the area from the earliest French settlers in the 1720s until today, even though Bonne Terre Mine established by St. Joseph lead mining company in 1864 closed in 1962. Mine tailing piles eroded, and contaminated the area as dust, posing residential hazards or were washed into the Big River. Only in 1992, the Bonne Terre Mine Tailings Site was listed as a Superfund site; as of 2022 remediation is still ongoing.
The Bonne Terre Depot from 1909, the St. Joe Lead Company Administration Building and the Bonne Terre Mine, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The latter is spring water filled and has become a scuba diving attraction.
Bonne Terre is also home to the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, a 3000 bed prison of adult males who may have substance abuse is
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