Soldiers Delight Mine
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flyingmoose
N 39° 24.749 W 076° 50.065
18S E 342075 N 4364157
Soldiers Delight Serpentine Barrens is located in the Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area (NEA) in western Baltimore County.
Waymark Code: WM36XM
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 02/19/2008
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The history of chrome mining in Baltimore County is of particular interest, in that it was due to the activities of Isaac Tyson, Jr., of Baltimore, that Maryland came to be the chrome producing center of the world for a considerable time*. It was on Tyson’s farm at Bare Hills, just north of Baltimore, that chromite was first discovered and mined. This date is variously placed between 1808 and 1827, but from the fact that most of the workings at Bare Hills had been abandoned some time previous to 1833 a time nearer to 1808 is probably correct.
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