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About Lead
- - - Drill Bit | Black Hills Mining Museum
  - - Lead Main Street | 1922
      Photo Credit – Fassbender Collection
Tours
- - - Plumb Bob | Black Hills Mining Museum
  - - The Slavonian “Cyclone Bowling Team” | 1925
Discover
- - - Shaft Bell Signals | Black Hills Mining Museum
  - - Slavonian Meat Delivery Wagons | Circa 1900
Contact
- - - Homestake Miner’s Helmet | Black Hills Mining Museum
  - - Contact Lead Historic Preservation
    - Volunteer Opportunities
  - - Niva Boarding House | Circa 1900

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Lead, SD Founded 1876

1876 - 1876

Gold discovered in Bobtail Gulch by Fred and Moses Manuel, Henry Harney and Alex Engh, claim sold to George Hearst who formed Homestake Mining Company, Lead City platted