Swaggart’s Run Placer
Location: 0.5 mile southwest of Line Pit mine, Rock Springs. Chrome sands were washed along the course of a stream at least as early as 1844 by Joseph Preston. In 1864 the Preston farm was advertized as containing about 35 acres of bottom ground along Conowingo Creek and its tributaries that averages 4 feet of chromite-bearing gravel. This included the lower reaches of Swaggart’s Run. During WWI the stream was again investigated for sand chrome reserves by F. L. Garrsion and W. T. West. The war ended before further work was done (Pearre and Heyl).
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