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I was recently reading about the North Carolina and Georgia gold rush in the USA.
"The
Carolina Gold Rush , the first
gold rush in the
United States , followed discovery of
gold in
North Carolina in 1799. It was not until a few years later that word of the gold spread and men started coming to North Carolina from other states....Over 2,500 ounces of gold was deposited in the
Philadelphia Mint by 1824." "The
Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant
gold rush in the
United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. It started in 1829 in present-day
Lumpkin County near the county seat,
Dahlonega , and soon spread through the
North Georgia mountains , following the
Georgia Gold Belt . By the early 1840s, gold became difficult to find. Many Georgia miners moved west when gold was found in the
Sierra Nevada in 1848, starting the
California Gold Rush....It is estimated that Georgia produced about 870,000 troy ounces (24,000 kg) of gold between 1828 and the mid-20th century, when commercial gold production ceased."
What if the amount of gold in North Carolina and Georgia was as large as the gold in California? What would the impact be on the history of the South and of the United States?
Regards
Stubear1012