The lead mine, known as “Gates’ Mine”, is located in the East mountain side of Adams off the East Mountain Road a small, remote and sparsely inhabited section of town. Located in the southeast corner of Adams where it borders Savoy and Cheshire it is also called “Little Egypt” Approx. 150 deep, the entrance is flooded but the tunnel is a comfortable height to get thru to the end.

The name “Little Egypt” most likely has a connection to a hootchy-kootchy dancer popular in the late 1890’s.  The original “Egypt” name was coined because a logging operation on the mountainside created many pyramid-shaped saw dust and slab wood piles making the area look like the burial ground of the Pharoahs.  In 1893, one of the many attractions at the Chicago World’s Fair was a dancer who performed her “danse du ventre,” better known as the belly dance or hootchy-kootchy. Her name was “Little Egypt.”
later she achieved greater notoriety when she danced at a Fifth Avenue bachelor party that was raided by the vice squad.  While the partiers were being ushered off to jail, she was hidden away sipping champagne. Courtesy Adams Historical.

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