Swansea Town site is an abandoned silver and copper mining town. We drove 30 miles from Parker on some pretty rough road to get to see it.The area was worked starting in 1862. The town eventually reached a population of about 500. It included a store, saloon, church, movie house and a post office.
Eventually they built a train track to it. By 1908 it had blast furnace, power plant, water system and many mine shafts. By 1911 the company was forced into bankruptcy.
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| The last 3 miles over the mountain was very steep and narrow. for 1 1/2 miles going up and 1 1/2 miles going down. It was really mean for only 4 wheel drive vehicles. |
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| The bunk houses in this picture are to only remaining buildings standing. The rest were just foundations where you could see where all of the buildings were originally. |
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| They had mine shafts going down deep into the earth ,but some shafts were right near the surface. |
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| The remains of the blast furnace building |
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