The year was 1828, two decades before the California Gold Rush. Benjamin Parks, a humble deer hunter, tripped over an awfully shiny rock and set off North Georgia’s gold rush. In the year that ...

It’s truly an impressive sight to see the Consolidated Gold Mine in Dahlonega. It’s gold, and people’s obsession with it that brings so many to the sleepy Georgia mountain town. The gold ...

DAHLONEGA, Ga. -- One cannot visit Dahlonega without being overwhelmed by its gold history. It's said the first gold was discovered by accident as a man stumbled over a big nugget of gold while ...

Two mines are still active in Dahlonega: Crisson Gold Mine and Consolidated Gold Mine (see map), reporting a 30 percent increase in gold panning kit sales recently. Kits can cost around $1,600 but ...

Famously home to the nation’s first gold rush, which began in 1828, the town still has two mines—Crisson Gold Mine and Consolidated Gold Mines—where visitors can pan for themselves.

There is more than gold to be discovered in Dahlonega, 65 miles north ... Try your luck gold panning at the Consolidated or Crisson gold mines. Buy a bucket of dirt and the staff at both mines ...

Tucked away in the hills near Dahlonega, we stumbled upon a surprising number of old gold mine entrances surrounding Lake Zwerner. What started as a simple outing quickly turned into a full-on ...

DAHLONEGA, Ga. -- America's first gold rush took ... family was gold-digging at the Consolidated Gold Mine, once the biggest in Dahlonega but now open only to tourists. For a fee of $10 for ...

FORT BENNING, Ga ... gold and fever. Get your fix of each by panning for gold at a local mine. You take home whatever you find, and it's something fun to check off your bucket list. Consolidated ...

DAHLONEGA, Ga. — America’s first gold rush took ... The Florida family from Naples was gold-digging at the Consolidated Gold Mine, once the biggest in Dahlonega. For a fee of $10 for adults ...

On Monday, Karyn Greer explored Consolidated Mine in Lumpkin County, near Dahlonega. Some historians believe the Georgia gold rush of 1880 began at the mine about an hour north of Atlanta.