Gold WPA Historical Marker [no longer standing]

Was located on the old Courthouse Square, Dahlonega Ga.

[Photographed Nov. 1979]

(text)

19 B-8

 

GOLD

 

Gold in gold-bearing quartz veins was first discovered in Georgia by Benjamin Parks, in 1828, 3 miles south, in what was then Cherokee Indian territory. The resulting gold rush hastened the exodus of the Indians and settled the region. The discovery mine, known as the Calhoun, was later owned and operated by Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. Others have operated it at intervals and periodically have made discoveries of ore.

 

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