Few places on earth derive their names from a commodity that made them famous. Goldville in Tallapoosa County, Alabama is one such town. While there are pointed certainties in life like death and taxes, one certainty for the early prospectors was that there was gold to be found in Northern Alabama. The name Goldville was […]
The presence of gold in the Appalachian Mountains was long known to the American Indians in the area. Gold was a traded commodity for the original inhabitants, but it was not valued with nearly the same reverence as it was for the Spanish Conquistadors that eventually landed in the Americas. It was the rich discoveries […]
One of the few towns, that have survived their prime gold rush times and actually prospered afterward is Dahlonega. It is a quiet little rural town in northern Georgia with a population of a little more than 5000 people. The town is only an hour’s ride from Atlanta and has a lot to offer, concerning […]
The western United States get a lot more attention, but prospectors in the East know that there was a lot of gold found here too. And Georgia was probably the richest state of any this side of the Mississippi River. The Georgia Gold Belt spans several counties in the northwestern part of the state, and […]