camb1
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After discovering this thread. I noticed one CCC camp in VT was not mentioned. Then I wondered how this list came about. Well anyway here's a photo of a CCC camp in Proctorsville VT/ Cavendish
above that site, is Howel smelter...the two sites are intertwined...the terraces are the smelter, just above the hole in the creek bottom...tent location just below the road between the camp an smelter...
smelter was built by barry goldwaters grand father...?great grandfather? packed the tools an fittings across the desert from la paz...
sharlot hall has some information on the site...most of the bricks were scavenged for gold content...seems the guy on fire watch was intoxicated, let the thing cool...turned the smelter into a big slag pile...I knew someone who got some bricks an ran them for content...
one of the drafts is above the hole mentioned...
pm me for location on a pile of silver ore...galena, lead content so high one can place a stone on a open flame an watch the metal run out...nasty/deadly, purty rocks...
not far from the location you mentioned.
seems the old timers were is such a fuss to get at the gold vein in walker, they threw the silver out...
lots of gold in that area... old timers dug below the gold bearing area...look above your head when standing in the creek...promise.
I have just checked in with the DEC. On Cobb Brook CCs Camp. There reply was that there is no metal detecting on any state land in New York.