Discovery Of Gold

Discovery Of Gold is a Georgia historical marker in White County, dedicated 1962.

Located on Helen Highway (State Highway 75) in Cleveland.

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In 1828 gold was discovered here on Duke's Creek, White County, by two people. John Witheroods of North Carolina found a 3-ounce nugget and a Negro servant of Major Frank Logan of Louisville, Georgia, also discovered gold on the creek. Early discoveries came almost simultaneously as prospectors drifted into Northeast Georgia from the North Carolina diggings. One merchant in the Nacoochee Valley purchased and shipped 1 to 1.5 million dollars worth of gold in a thirty year period. The pits visible along the creek are evidence of recent hydraulic mining.

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Historical maps covering this location

1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1833 · Georgia, pts. of N.C, S.C., Tenn., Ala., Florida. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1831, covering the location of Discovery Of Gold, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1831, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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