Mineral Hill

Description

This serpentine body was the site of Crump's quarries, which produced serpentine building stone in the early 1870s. A small feldspar quarry was also worked nearby. The dumps were well known as a locale for mineral collection. The area later became a Boy Scout camp before being sold to the county. A small grassland opening once existed towards the southwest corner of the property. However, part of this area has been developed and the rest seems to have succumbed to succession. Serpentine vegetation has all but disappeared, leaving only a few lyre-leaved rock cress on the old quarry workings.

Visiting

The area is now preserved by Delaware County as Mineral Hill County Park. A trail winds through the old quarry workings along the stream that runs northeast into Ridley Creek.