Hidden Treasure

 

The sources discuss several locations with "lime" in their name or that are related to limestone, including a Lime Bank and a Lime Pit.

Lime Bank

• The Lime Bank is located near the junction of Dry Fork Creek and Deer Creek, as well as Furnace Hollow.
• The Lime Bank is associated with an "enigma" and a hidden treasure of some sort.
• The Lime Bank has caught fire twice and burned for a year at a time.
• The Lime Bank is mentioned in land records from June 1780.

Lime Pit

• There is a big lime pit with a couple of hundred-foot-high face.
• Thousands of tons of Greenbrier Limestone have been blasted off the face of the pit.
• The lime pit is near the state highway.
• The lime pit has been described as a kind of shelter from the rain.
• The lime pit area has been considered for development as a scenic overlook.

Other mentions of lime or limestone:

• There is a Lime Stone Section of the Mill-borough District.
• Stamping Creek occasionally sinks beneath the limestone.
• The text mentions "Greenbrier Limestone" being blasted from the face of a cliff.

Additional Points

• The sources note that the underlying geology of the area includes limestone.
• The sources also mention that the Greenbrier River flows down to the hard pocono sandstone.