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Description: Wildrose Charcoal Kilns in Death Valley, California. The ten kilns (25 feet, or 7.6 m, high) were used to make charcoal from wood to smelt lead and silver from nearby mines. Built in 1877, they were only in operation for 2 or 3 years. [1]
Title: Charcoal Kilns, California
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