Consolidated Gold Mines

Consolidated Gold Mines is a Georgia historical marker in Lumpkin County, dedicated 1954.

Located at the intersection of Morrison Moore Parkway (Georgia Route 9) and East Main Street (U.S. 19) in Dahlonega.

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One mile southeast of here, from 1900 to 1906, the Dahlonega Consolidated Mining Company operated what is considered the largest gold plant ever constructed east of the Mississippi River. Capitalized at $5,000,000, the plant included a 120-stamp mill, a large chlorinator, a 550 foot tunnel and numerous small buildings. The Consolidated Mining Company furnished much of the setting for one of the earliest moving picture westerns, "The Plunderer", starring William Farnum. The film was made in Dahlonega and its environs before the First World War.

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1886 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1892 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VIII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1903 · Dahlonega, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Gen. map VIII, 1895, covering the location of Consolidated Gold Mines, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Gen. map VIII, 1895, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Consolidated Gold Mines

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