1995

Not sure what year truck this is, although it looks like about an early sixties model to me. That would date the last major operation in the Cranberry Mine. This and several other abandoned vehicles, including some bulldozers and hoists were sitting where they left them in various states of repair or disrepair when we visited the mine in 1995. In the spring of 1997 all the mining buildings and equipment, and I assume these vehicles too, were taken down by Elizabethton Herb and Metal, scrap dealers. These dump trucks were used by the last company that worked the mine to haul ore out of the mine and along the old right-of-way to Iron Street in Elk Park where it connected with 19E. I'd still like to hear from someone about this operation and find out who it was, what exactly they did, and what years they operated. I believe the very last operation at the Cranberry mine used some of the leftover crusher equipment in some sort of business involving sand. I don't think the sand business involved the mine, though, only the old outside equipment.