Georgia is home to one of the earliest gold rushes of the country. Long before the famous California gold rush of 1849 thousand of white miners swarmed the state of Georgia following the discovery of gold in 1828 near Dahlonega. The spread of the news of the discovery caused one of the earliest major gold […]
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6 Rivers in Georgia Where You Can Find Gold
The largest gold producing state in the eastern United States was Georgia. The celebrated county seat of Dahlonega in Lumpkin County was the center of the original gold strike in Georgia. For a time, this part of Georgia was getting more attention from gold miners than anywhere in the entire world. Miners scoured the rivers […]
Where to Pan for Gold in Georgia
The largest gold producing state in the eastern United States was Georgia. Most of the gold is found within the Carolina Slate Belt, which extends from eastern Alabama up to Virginia. In Georgia, you will often hear this referred to as the Georgia Gold Belt or Carolina Slate Belt. The largest concentration of gold was […]