Swansea - California Ghost Town

SWANSEA

NAME: Swansea
COUNTY: Inyo
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 3
CLIMATE: Mild winter with, hot summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Winter, Spring, Fall.

COMMENTS: Just off highway 190 near Lone Pine. Many no trespassing signs.
REMAINS: A few foundations.

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 was 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. Courtesy Dolores Steele Swansea Courtesy DAVID A. WRIGHT Great Basin Research Swansea Courtesy DAVID A. WRIGHT Great Basin Research	Swansea Courtesy Dolores Steele Swansea Courtesy Dolores Steele Swansea Courtesy Dolores Steele Swansea cabin May 6, 2007 Courtesy Laura Michaels

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 was 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.
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Swansea
Courtesy DAVID A. WRIGHT
Great Basin Research

Swansea
Courtesy Dolores Steele

Swansea cabin May 6, 2007
Courtesy Laura Michaels

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