| Thicketty Mountain Ore Pits (38CK74) | |
| Nearest City: | Shady Grove Church, South Carolina |
| Added: | May 8, 1987 |
| Refnum: | 87000711 |
Thicketty Mountain Ore Pits (38CK74) is a historic archaeological site located near Shady Grove Church, Cherokee County, South Carolina. The site includes iron ore pits associated with the South Carolina Manufacturing Company, a major iron manufacturing company that operated in Spartanburg County between about 1825 and about 1850. The iron ore pits or surface mines cover several forested acres along a gently sloping ridge and are generally depressions about two to three meters deep and about five to ten meters across. The pits were last operational in the 1850s.[1] [2]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.