John Swift - Table Top Rock - any info. would be appreciated - thanks!

[swiftsearcher]

Anyone have any information regarding the Table Top Rock from the John Swift Mines lore? I have several journals, but NONE mention this rock.

Thanks in advance for any info.!

 

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[hlzblz]

i know where it is but cant get to. in tx., have original maps papers etc, my family needs set up tho so aint gonna give it all out

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Yo! May wanna get a copy of SWIFT'S SILVER MINES AND RELATED APPALACHIAN TREASURES by Michael S. Steely; reading it now, and I am READY to go looking TOMORROW!!! LOL... Table Rock is in North Carolina, near Cherokee; up in those MOUNTAINS... AKA Table Top Rock... GEEEZEEE...

 

[swiftsearcher]

Rebel, that is not the "Table Top Rock" Swift mentions. The one he mentions (which Steeley NEVER talks about in his book) is very near one of the mines. It is simply a rock that looks like a table - I have several pics of it and have been inside it (there is an opening between the "legs" of the table!)

 

[goldman34]

There is a Table Rock here in the mountains of N.C... it is in Burke County...not far from Tenn.....burke county as well as avery county has gold in it..

 

[swiftsearcher]

Again, as I have stated before, there are several places that one can find some of the rock "markers" Swift mentions. The KEY is to find them in the exact positions Swift stated. In order for any "table top rock" to be the one Swift spoke of in his journals, it has to be on the hill above the buffalo rock. I have pics of these in the exact positions Swift states. In fact, once you are at the buffalo rock, all you have to do is look up and you can see the table top rock jutting out over the clift (or hill) above the buffalo rock!

The only bad thing is that someone (and I have a couple ideas who) took a chisel and knocked off the carvings of the names of Swift and his crew from the bottom of the buffalo rock!