Silver Hill is a populated place in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States.
History Since the discovery in 1838 of silver, lead and zinc, these metals were mined at the Washington mine within the area in Davidson County.Hand book of North Carolina: embracing historical and physiographical sketches of the state, with statistical and other information relating to its industries, resources and political condition (Google eBook) (Raleigh News Steam Book and Job Print, 1879), pg. 128Report of the geological survey of North Carolina: Vol. I. Physical geography, resumé, economical geology (Google eBook) (J. Turner, State printer and binder, 1875), pg. 289 It was one of the only silver mines in North Carolina.
The company that owned the mine was known as the "Washington Mining Company" and then the "Silver Hill Mining Company"; it was largely controlled by a group of New York investors who also controlled the company town where workers and their families lived.Charles C. Bolton, Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi, (Duke University Press, 1994), 35-36. During the American Civil War, lead from the mine was used to manufacture Confederate bullets.Robert J "Bob" Schabilion, Down the Crabtree, (AuthorHouse, 2009), pg. 99
The historic Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery is located in the area.
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