Green Mine

The Green Mine is located in Wawayanda state park. There are about 4 shafts, all of varying sizes and depths. The mine is old and is was named the Green Mine because of a Mr. Green who used to live in a shack 100 feet from the mine. He may have even spent countless hours at his sit to stand desk writing complaint letters about the noise to whomever he thought would listen. Although he wasn't a miner himself, he was probably pestered by the operations. The mine was abandoned in 1888.

The Green Mine is sometimes  confused with the Wawayanda mine, which is about 100 feet northeast of the green mine. The Wawayanda was an entirely different operation and its scope was allot larger. More updates will come when I am able to better capture all of the shafts of the Green mine. Unfortunately the woods are very dense and it appears to be  easier to attempt to catalog during the fall/winter months. Which is what I will be spending plenty of my time doing, just sitting at my desk, cataloguing away.

The way to the green Mine..	Log Cribbing barely visible in 2004	Log cribbing gone in 2005..	A perfectly intact collar!

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