Exploring a "Cornish Miner's Community that Time Forgot"

Mineral Point, Wisconsin, has a long history and has, for one reason or another, been able to preserve a great deal of it. In the early 1830s, immigrants from Cornwall founded a community and started mining the readily available lead and zinc. Featured today are some of the restored homes they built with the readily available stone. The first and probably best known is Pendarvis. Saved by a couple of fellows in 1935, Pendarvis anchors the efforts.

Today, Mineral Point is an artistic community with what appears to be a nice tourist trade. Linda had been there before and remembered a particular pottery shop so we stopped in to see if the potter was in. Unfortuntely, he wasn't but we did get to talk with a woman tending the shop. She'd lived all her life in the area and spoke fondly of the community.

We'd also hoped to get some excellent quality cheese curds but, again, found our timing was bad. The cheese is made on Mondays and the curd goes quickly. We moved on.