Template:Did you know nominations/Silver Hill Mine
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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:40, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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Silver Hill Mine
Washington Mine, 1845
- ... that a silver mine (pictured) produced bullets for the Confederacy? Source: https://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v16-2009-Kaas.pdf pp. 37-38
Moved to mainspace by Generalissima (talk). Self-nominated at 09:41, 24 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Silver Hill Mine; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Length, date, close paraphrase check ok. Regarding the hook, arguably the mine supplier raw material for bullets produced at another site. Also, the Confederated States of America should be linked, "the Confederacy" might have different meanings for people outside the US. How about ALT1 - ...that silver from Silver Hill Mine (pictured), the first silver mine in the U.S., was used for Confederate bullets during the American Civil War? --Soman (talk) 11:59, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
- That's more accurate, but I think too long to be punchy - I like to try to keep my hooks as short as possible. What about ALT2 ... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine? (pictured) Generalissima (talk) 16:34, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
