Latitude: 41°9'N
Longitude: 74°29'W
Ref.: The iron Mines of New Jersey (1910), Bayley: 281-282; NJ State Geol. Annual Rpts.: (1855): 164; (1873): 70; (1879): 80; (1880): 115; (1883): 138; The Minerals of New York City & Its Environs, New York Mineralogical Club Bull., Vol. 3, No. 1, Manchester, J.G. (1931): 98; Rocks & Min.: 21:416. An iron mine in magnetite ore located ½ mile East of Vernon-Stockholm Road & 3 miles South of Vernon. Started about 1815 & closed 1830, closed again in 1870, then worked 1870-1876, 1880 & 1881-1883. Ore vein was 275 feet long x 11 feet average width. Workings included 3 shafts (1870) with the main shaft 200 feet deep.
In the 1920's and early '30's, during Prohibition, there was a rather large still that operated at an isolated homestead not far from the Williams mine. The bootleggers transported their goods to the city in a specially reconfigured Hupmobile, a long extinct brand of automobile. When the Fed's finally knocked over the operation in 1932 my uncle Roy, a local farmer, told me the bootleggers pushed the loaded Hupmobile into one of the old shafts at the Williams mine before slipping away into the woods. Presumably its remnants are there to this day.
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