Swansea, California

USA / California / Keeler /
 unincorporated area / community, ghost town
Swansea was built in 1870 to support the nearby camp of Owens Lake. Owens Lake held the furnaces for smelting some of the ore from Cerro Gordo. While the furnaces were in Owens Lake, the workers lived at Swansea. Today there are a few crumbling walls left at the site.

Furnace and mill were built here by Col. Sherman Stevens in 1869 and used until March 1874. James Brady assumed its operation in 1870 for the Silver-Lead Company and built the town of Swansea during that next few years. The output of this furnace and another at Cerro Gordo was around 150 bars of silver every 24 hours, each weighing 83 pounds.

www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/swansea.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea,_California
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Coordinates:   36°31'27"N   117°54'15"W

Comments

  • The Swansea site is part of Cerro Gordo Mines and is private property.
  • Painted there on Sunday 5/17/15.. Very cool old buildings in various stages of decomposition. Beautiful
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