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Deer hunts, a silver mine and avalanches at Ellis Cliffs
 At the northern tip of Ellis Cliffs near the old mouth of St. Catherine Creek in the 1790s, a Spaniard traveling down river in a pirogue found deposits of silver. When years later a prospector asked local planters to help mine the silver, they asked: why?
The wealthy planters wondered what could be more valuable than cotton, also known as "white gold."
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