Picher Housing Authority

Tanja Barnes _{on Google}

Jul 27th, 2018

This place is eerie. Less than a 100 years ago the town of Picher in Oklahoma was a mining boomtown producing more than $20 billion in lead and zinc ore from 1917 to 1947. Today, Picher is a hazardous waste site as a result of unregulated mining.
Picher fell to ruins due to toxic waste contaminating the air, soil, and water. What’s more, the land is so riddled with tunnels causing sinkholes to swallow up buildings like Godzilla on a rampage. Worth a visit for photographers that like to shoot stark, desolated places.