Illinois Mining Site Transformed Into A Crystal Clear Beach
You only have a few more weeks to check out this amazing Illinois beach before it shuts down for the year. In the early 1950s a mining company name...
You only have a few more weeks to check out this amazing Illinois beach before it shuts down for the year. In the early 1950s a mining company named Vulcan Materials began digging for sand and stone at a site on the outskirts of Crystal Lake that is now named Three Oaks Recreation Area. Facebook/Three Oaks recreation Area Facebook/Three Oaks recreation Area loading... After digging for more than 40 years, the project exposed the area's water table and the quarries that had been excavated over the past 4 decades filled with water, creating two massive lakes.