Sprinkle and Swift

[Curtis]

Hi oomer,

Do you have anything that tells where Sprinkle lived at the time he made the coins?

 

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[boomer]

Sprinkle lived past the head of grassy creek on the ridge. if you use google map service, you can see a small clearing and what looks to be part of a foundation and parts of an old path going along the east side of the ridge. i have not been up there. i got has far has negro hollow and looked at the place where silver ore was mined. vary low grade, but when your broke anything looks good. most of what i found was in the old court records and news papers of lewis and greenup county. the john waite i talked about was with the group of counterfeiters that Boone's son arrested at carter caves. boone was the high sheriff of greenupsburg before they changed the name to greenup. at carter caves, in front of bat cave was the old furnace waite used to melt the silver out. you may still find some of the old slag from the furnace.