Notes

Colonel Sherman Stevenson built the Owens Lake Silver-Lead Furnace in 1869 to create silver bars from raw ore taken from the rich mine of Cerro Gordo. He operated the furnace only a year before James Brady took it over and continued operation until 1874. Brady built the town of Swansea over time while he was managing the furnace. Today, Swansee is remembered in old shacks standing in various stages of decay.