Durham Hall’ was Built by Moses Austin in Potosi

Trivia
on September 11, 2005

In 1798, Moses Austin, from Durham, Conn., began mining lead in eastern Missouri. He built a Colonial-style mansion, Durham Hall, around which the town of Potosi (pop. 2,662) grew up. In 1816, Austin relinquished his mine to his son Stephen and moved to Herculaneum (pop. 2,805), a town he had established in 1808 as a shipping point for his lead business.

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