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County: Wolfe

Swift's Silver Camp

Marker Number: 

559

Location: 

Courthouse Lawn, Campton

John Swift's fabulous journals report silver operations in East Kentucky. References to ships on the Spanish Seas and to coinage of silver in this area with six trips from Atlantic Coast to this region, 1761 to 1769, is an unsolved mystery. Intrepid searchers have found no trace of cache or mine. One Swift camp reputed to have been on site of this Court House.

Installed April 23, 1963.

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