Warren King Charcoal Kilns, 5 miles west of Idaho Highway 28, Targhee National Forest, Leadore, Lemhi County, ID

Significance: The Warren King Charcoal Kilns are representative of a transitional stage in the technology of charcoal manufacture, between traditional charcoal pits and wood distillation plants. Their technology was uniquely adapted to the needs of the nineteenth-century mining industry of the western U.S. The kilns are also associated with, and representative of, a transformation of that industry, from one based on rich precious-metal placers and lodes to one based on the extraction and efficient treatment of large volumes of base-metal ores. The kilns were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Survey number: HAER ID-11
Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001577