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 The adit to the Greenwood Mine in 2005. |
Greenwood MineThe Greenwood Mine was worked as early as 1838 and was owned by the Parrott Iron Company. The mine was important during the Civil War, its ore being used in the construction of the famous Parrott Gun. The ore was shipped to the Clove and Greenwood furnaces. The mine worked three layers of pyritiferous ore that required roasting. The center vein was nine feet in thickness and separated by the other veins by a few feet of rock. The mine was not worked from 1870 to 1879 but ore was raised in 1880, the year it closed for good. Field examination of the site suggests considerable work was done although the mine itself is almost entirely flooded. Open cuts, flooded stopes and archeological remains are all that can be seen. |
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