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Aug 04, 2007, 04:50 PM
#1
 My goal for 2012 is a dozen Walking Liberty Halves
FOREST COUNTY MINES
Does anyone have any information on a silver mine in the Forest/Warren County area of Pa. I had a little bit of information about it, but in a recent move it accidentally got shredded with old papers. If anybody has any information that they could send me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
I Dig Everything...Even Pull Tabs.
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Aug 14, 2007, 01:06 AM
#2
Re: FOREST COUNTY MINES
I don't think these are what your looking but thought I would post just in case
Silver Mine Knob
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/polycomm/aug/sil8897.htm
Pequea Silver Mine
The Pequea silver mine near Conestoga in Lancaster County was worked from before the Revolutionary War to 1875. A minor amount of mining was done about 1900. The ore is silver-bearing galena in the Cambrian Vintage Dolomite. Production is unknown.
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/...pdfs/v36n1.pdf
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ma...sgs/pequea.jpg
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/.../smithlead.pdf
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Aug 14, 2007, 04:18 AM
#3
Re: FOREST COUNTY MINES
all I have on Forrest County is this

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Aug 14, 2007, 12:00 PM
#4
Re: FOREST COUNTY MINES
I found this link, it's a story written about Aughanbaugh Mountain and refers to silver mines and caves. I have no idea where the places are the are referred in this story. I think it may be the same place as Aughanbaugh Gap which is near my place BUT I have never heard anything about Silver Mines around here. I did a search for some of the places mentioned in the story, but they are several with the same name so it doesn't help much.
Anyways, here is the link. Maybe it will help give clues or something. If nothing else, it's an interesting read.
http://home.alltel.net/jmshaffer/silver.htm
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Mar 12, 2008, 12:08 AM
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Re: FOREST COUNTY MINES
i live in forrest co Marrienville never heard this before thanks
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Aug 20, 2008, 09:29 PM
#6
Re: FOREST COUNTY MINES
 Originally Posted by jeff of pa
all I have on Forrest County is this
Funny you posted this. Ive been researching this mine and its story. I actually have a trip up to tionesta this weekend & hope to hit the library. This is the exact thing that got me signed up here. And i got on here today cause i was finally going to ask if anyone knew anything on it. Quite funny.
So Ron if this is the mine you were asking about, perhaps pm me.
Ive searched this site and havent found anything other than the legend itself. But here it is for the curious....
"Somewhere in the Allegheny National Forest to the west of the town of Tionesta, Pennsylvania is a cave reputed to be full of silver.
During the late 1700s, a white settler named Hill got lost and sought shelter in a cave for the night. Inside the cave he saw veins of silver running everywhere through the walls and ceiling. In the floor was a great pit filled with pure silver. When he managed to find his way home, he was unable to find his way back to the cave.
Hill's story was backed up by an early entrepreneur who traded liquor with the indigenous Indians in exchange for furs and silver. When he asked them where they got all their silver, legend has it that they blindfolded him and took him to a cave matching the one described in Hill's story.
Pure silver was found in Indian burial grounds near Irvine, Warren County - approximately 15 miles upstream from Tionesta. However, the Cave of Silver has never been found."
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Apr 05, 2012, 08:30 PM
#7
Just wondering if anyone has come up with new info on this topic.
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May 28, 2012, 05:37 PM
#8
 Rick
Have you ever heard of this ? Read it in a history book of the area. Just found it on the net. Warren county, Pennsylvania: In 1977, hikers found part of a silver bar weighing 2 pounds in a rock crevice somewhere in the hills near Sheffield. It is believed that the piece was a part of a much larger cache somewhere in the area.
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Sep 11, 2012, 06:33 AM
#9
 My goal for 2012 is a dozen Walking Liberty Halves
Nothing new on the mines & never heard of the bars being found. That is a new one for me ---could they be one lead or could the bars be from the mine that were poured & forgotten about/lost.
I Dig Everything...Even Pull Tabs.
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Mar 21, 2017, 12:27 AM
#10
Well my name is mark i have had a lot of intrest about the mine i ben looking i had some pappers on it that was found in a old house thay got lost in a move it was full a info great info an research it led me to a place that over looks a larg fild of golden rod its about 5 miles frome tionesta its on the side of the river that the mians lived im close if this is it there was a calaps of the cave dore traped by a 15 foot rock with unknowen depth i used a silver detector not hi grade equipment it say silver is there it has to be it it showes sings of a fire or like made it so no one culd get it witch would exsplane why it was never found
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Mar 21, 2017, 12:37 AM
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Thers a rock that looks like a Indians face almost 20 yards hi an a naro hall way u can see the torch marks on the selling but its broke in half a hallway i wish i had some one didint think i was nuts but this place has to be it its close to tionesta but fare like legend says it was just well hiden if any
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Sep 19, 2017, 07:57 PM
#12
Silver mine
 Originally Posted by mark120
Well my name is mark i have had a lot of intrest about the mine i ben looking i had some pappers on it that was found in a old house thay got lost in a move it was full a info great info an research it led me to a place that over looks a larg fild of golden rod its about 5 miles frome tionesta its on the side of the river that the mians lived im close if this is it there was a calaps of the cave dore traped by a 15 foot rock with unknowen depth i used a silver detector not hi grade equipment it say silver is there it has to be it it showes sings of a fire or like made it so no one culd get it witch would exsplane why it was never found
Mark which side of the river did the mians live and did you go up river or down river 5 miles?
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Nov 28, 2017, 12:12 AM
#13
This place is east of tionesta up river towards tiioute
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