CRATER OF DIAMONDS
Site — Murfreesboro, Arkansas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/crater-of-diamonds-murfreesboro-arkansas/

The world’s only public diamond mine—where the Uncle Sam was found.

A site in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, Crater of Diamonds is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The world’s only public diamond mine—where the Uncle Sam was found. The archive files it under natural wonders, geology and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Crater of Diamonds is the field where you keep what you find — the only public diamond mine in the world, the 1906 farm where John Huddleston crawled on his hands and knees and picked up a 'glittering pebble' with 'a fiery eye.' The diamond rush built the town of Kimberly; the park lets visitors dig and keep the diamonds.
The field was the failure — the pipe that was 25% of the world's known diamond-bearing area but never rich enough to mine commercially, the companies that went broke trying. In 1952 the rivals partnered to sell admission instead; the state bought it in 1972. Visitors find about two diamonds a day.
The crater is still there — the plowed field, the Star of Arkansas and the Star of Murfreesboro that came out of the tourist era, the 500-year supply of diamonds still in the ground. The file keeps the field: the 1906 discovery, the failed mining, and the park where the diamonds are still free.
Crater of Diamonds is the archive's treasure file — the only public diamond mine, Huddleston's glittering pebble, and the field that pays the diggers.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Crater of Diamonds is the archive's treasure file — the world's only public diamond mine, the failed commercial digs, and the field where finders keep.
A mine that couldn't pay keeps its diamonds — the file's suggestion being that the Crater's hold is the public dig: the two-a-day finds, the 500-year supply, and the field that's the only one where you keep what you find.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Media reported] historical legend: The diamond finds are documented; the lore is the field’s memory. The site in Murfreesboro, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. The report is preserved in sources like 'Crater of Diamonds'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.
  source: Crater of Diamonds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_of_Diamonds_State_Park)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The Uncle Sam diamond (40.23 ct) was found here in 1924. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Crater of Diamonds'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Crater of Diamonds — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_of_Diamonds_State_Park

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