Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, abandoned buildings line Main Steet in Picher, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) A ...

On the first Saturday of each December, a small miracle occurs in the extreme northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher. Around 8:00 a.m., the first vehicles start arriving in the parking lot of an ...

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PICHER, Okla. — If every picture tells a story, the rows of nameless faces in the photographs displayed in the Picher Mining Museum tell the truth. Mining was hard, dirty and often dangerous work. “We ...

PICHER, OK -- After decades of lead and zinc mining, Picher, Oklahoma, is disappearing little by little. The nation’s largest EPA Superfund site has rapidly decreased after the town suffered from ...

The northeastern part of Oklahoma is home to eight federally recognized tribal nations, including the Quapaw. It's also where one of the largest mining booms in the country took place. That's where ...

The town of Picher, Oklahoma, on the Quapaw reservation, is home to one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States. Tar Creek, which feeds into the Neosho River then on to Grand Lake, runs ...

NEW YORK — Audience members watching “The Picher Project” last night might not have previously known about “America’s most toxic town,” but by the end of the evening, they did — all in the form of a ...

A once-thriving Oklahoma town is now known as one of America's "most toxic ghost towns." The town structures that weren't demolished, destroyed by fire or a tornado, or collapsed are abandoned and ...

While surface mining on the land along the Oklahoma-Kansas border produced lead shot during the Civil War, it wasn’t until 1913 that Picher emerged after a giant ore deposit was discovered on the ...