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DAHLONEGA, Ga. - On the list of things we love ... under that debris was that gold vein discovered by original owner Captain Frank Hall. Visitors to The Smith House today can view the original ...
Eventually Dahlonega supplied ... that small placer had to have belonged to a large vein somewhere. “Gold is an indicator of the passage of time, because it’s bound up in quartz and other ...
ExploreRanked: The best golf courses in the South “Today visitors to Dahlonega are invited ... miner’s struggles to uncover gold deep within large quartz veins,” the website explained.
All the way from where Dahlonega now stands to Nuckollsville ... An earlier survey from 1896 has results from ore samples from a gold vein that was a foot thick. One sample showed ...
Several years later, the General Assembly changed the name of Licklog, the county seat of present-day Lumpkin County, the epicenter of the Georgia gold rush, to Dahlonega—similar to the Cherokee ...
Dahlonega (pronounced Duh-LON-e-ga) means yellow in Cherokee. But actually, the true inspiration for the name was gold. In the 1830s, settlers discovered what the Native Americans there had known ...
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 ...
Visible gold identified in drill-hole EZ-21-12, 150m to the northwest of the SW Vein, highlighting the potential existence of a new, previously undiscovered gold vein zone Assays received from ...