Author: Mine and Quarry News BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada and Mexico
Author: Mine and Quarry News BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The Georgia Gold Rush
Author: David WilliamsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643364359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rush In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma. The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners. Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.
Analytical Index-digest of Georgia Reports
Author: Howard Van EppsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Annotations and citations (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Sessional Papers
Author: Ontario. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Second Report on the Gold Deposits of Georgia
Author: S. Percy JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada for Two Years Ending ...
Author: Nevada. Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Engineering and Mining Journal
Author: United States Investor
Author: Mining and Scientific Press
Author: Report of the Secretary of State for the Period ...
Author: Nevada. Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
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