I’m doing some historical research on Spanish era mining in the Appalachians, and stumbled across a reference to a Spanish mine legend on Coronaka Creek, near Greenwood.
According to an early history of South Carolina,* In the early 1800’s, a group of Revolutionary War veterans searched for a Spanish silver mine on Coronaka Creek, in the District of Abbeville, near the old Rock Church, northeast of Greenwood, South Carolina. According to legends, the mine had been worked by the Spanish…