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2. Carolina gold rush - Wikipedia

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   Gold-quartz veins are found in the schists. [1] : 20, 27, 48. The Carolina gold rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, by a 12-year-old boy named Conrad Reed. He spotted the nugget while playing in Meadow Creek on his family's farm in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

3. Reed Gold Mine - Wikipedia

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   66000587 [1] Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. The Reed Gold Mine is located in Midland, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and is the site of the first documented commercial gold find in the United States. [2] It has been designated a National Historic Landmark because of its importance and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

4. Cabarrus County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Website. www .cabarruscounty .us. Cabarrus County ( / kəˈbɛərəs / kuh-BAIR-us) [1] [2] is a county located in the south-central part of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 225,804, making it the 9th-most populous county in North Carolina. [3] The county seat is Concord, [4] which was incorporated in ...

5. Gold rush - Wikipedia

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   The first significant gold rush in the United States was in Cabarrus County, North Carolina (east of Charlotte), in 1799 at today's Reed's Gold Mine. Thirty years later, in 1829, the Georgia Gold Rush in the southern Appalachians occurred.

6. Gold mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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   North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, following the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget by 12-year-old Conrad Reed in a creek at his father's farm in 1799. The Reed Gold Mine , southwest of Georgeville in Cabarrus County, North Carolina produced about 50,000 troy ounces (1,600 kg) of gold from lode ...

7. Robert Harvey Morrison Farm and Pioneer Mills Gold Mine

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   December 31, 1990. Robert Harvey Morrison Farm and Pioneer Mills Gold Mine, also known as Cedarvale, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Midland, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The district encompasses five contributing buildings and three contributing sites. The house was built about 1846, and is a two ...