Gold Mining in Stafford County

Gold Mining in Stafford County is a Virginia historical marker in Stafford County, dedicated 1990.

Stafford County · dedicated 1990 · Rte. 17, 6.53 miles north of I-95 and 3.89 miles south of Stafford/Fauquier County line.

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Near here are located ten of the nineteenth-century gold mines of Stafford County. The best-known were the Eagle, Rattlesnake (Horse Pen), Lee, New Hope, and Monroe mines. The Eagle Gold Mining Company, Rappahannock Gold Mine Company of New York, Rapidan Mining and Milling Company of Pennsylvania, United States Mining Company, and Stafford Mining Company operated here between the 1830s and the early twentieth century. Mining activities gradually ceased because of declining profits.

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