As a follow up to Monday’s post, below are surreal images from the abandoned towns of Picher, Oklahoma and Treece, Kansas. Both were poisoned by lead and zinc mining in the first two-thirds of the 20th century and formerly abandoned by order of the Environmental Protection Agency and the respective states in 2012 (Treece) and 2013 (Picher). We visited both ghost towns on Wednesday, August 9th.
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