Preservation Thursday: Homestake Water System Past and Present

Preservation Thursday: Homestake Water System Past and Present

From October 15, 2020 12:00 pm until October 15, 2020 1:00 pm

At Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center

[email protected]

605-722-4800

http://www.deadwoodhistory.com


Curt Betcher will present a program on the Homestake water system which was first constructed in the early 1880s by Homestake Mine. Water was required in larger quantities for the expansion of Homestake and other mines in the Lead-Deadwood area. George Hearst purchased the mine in the late 1870s and knew that much more water was needed. Homestake constructed over 30 miles of wood-flume gravity-fed systems from as far away as the north tributary of Rapid Creek. The flume system was replaced in the 1910s with clay tile pipe. A pump station was added to pump water from Spearfish Creek to Whitewood Creek. The system is still in use under the ownership of the Lead Sanitation District. It supplies all the water to the Lead-Deadwood area. Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center; 12:00 p.m.; free to members and $5 for non-members.  Masks are required.  Social distancing and limited admission will also be implanted.