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The Georgia Gold Rush
Author | : David Williams |
Publsiher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781643364353 |
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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.
Auraria
Author | : E. Merton Coulter |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820334974 |
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The first gold rush in American history occurred in north Georgia; it preceded the mining booms in the West by almost two decades. Published in 1956, Auraria tells the story of the mining town at the center of Georgia's gold frenzy. Auraria, which reached its zenith in the 1830s, eventually faded into a ghost town by the twentieth century. E. Merton Coulter gives readers more than a local study by placing Auraria's fascinating story in the context of larger regional and national developments.
Dahlonega Georgia
Author | : Anne Dismukes Amerson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Dahlonega (Ga.) |
ISBN | : 057812324X |
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History of the first major gold rush in the United States, which occurred in Dahlonega, Georgia
The North Georgia Gold Rush
Author | : Harold David Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Dahlonega (Ga.) |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822031033855 |
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The Gold Rush in Georgia
Author | : Thomas Conn Bryan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Georgia |
ISBN | : OCLC:15587299 |
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The Gold Placers of the Vicinity of Dahlonega Georgia
Author | : William Phipps Blake |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Dahlonega (Ga.) |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433089970044 |
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Gold Fever
Author | : Raymond Charles Rensi,Harold David Williams |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820313149 |
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In 1828 the lure of gold brought thousands of hopeful fortune hunters to the north Georgia mountains. Towns, banks, even a mint sprang up, and the gold rush was on. This publication describes the excitement, conflict, success, and disappointment of Georgia's gold rush.
A Global History of Gold Rushes
Author | : Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520967588 |
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Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.