Gold Mining in Stafford County

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, ...

Oak of the Golden Dream

Francisco Lopez made California’s first authenticated gold discovery on March 9, 1842. While gathering wild onions near an oak tree in Placerita Canyon he found gold particles clinging to the roots of the bulbs. The San Fernando placers and nearby ...

Gold Mining and Michigan Bar

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Michigan Bar

Gold was discovered on the Cosumnes River in 1849 by two men from Michigan in the vicinity of the historic Nisenan settlement of Palamul. In the 1850s the town of Michigan Bar was the largest in ...

Dorn's Mill / Dorn Gold Mine

Dorn's Mill

Built ca. 1899, this steam-powered mill employed a milling process pioneered earlier by inventor Oliver Evans, which virtually eliminated manual labor. First known as the McCormick Enterprise Ginnery, the mill became the Dorn-Finley Co. in 1917, its purpose "to ...

Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

On 5 Sept. 1716, in this region, it is believed, Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood and his party of government officials, gentry, Native Americans, soldiers, and servants crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley. Their adventure into Virginia’s western ...

Fight at Gold’s Farm

Fight at

Gold’s Farm

Sept. 3, 1864

Mosby & 6th N.Y.

Cavalry

Marker is on Lord Fairfax Highway (U.S. 340), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gold Mining in Maryland

Most gold found in Maryland came from the Potomac area. Mining operations began shortly after gold was discovered near Great Falls during the Civil War and continued until 1940; incidental prospecting continued until 1951. From 1884–1940 the US Mint in ...

Gold Run

Founded in 1854 by O. W. Hollenbeck and originally called Mountain Springs. Famed for its hydraulic mines which from 1865 to 1878 shipped $6,125,000.00 in gold. Five large water ditches passed through the town serving the mining companies which had ...

Gold Road Mine

In 1900 Jose Jerez discovered gold here in a

chunk of quartz. It was assayed out 40 ounces to

the ton! The claim was resold for $275,000.00. By

1907 the mine milled 140,625 ounces of gold

worth $2,250,000.00. Addwest Minerals acquired

the ...

"Gold Diggers' Road"

This section of highway was once a part of the “Gold Diggers’ Road,” one of the earliest ways used in reaching this area during the Gold Rush days.

Beginning on the Chestatee River to the east, where it connected with a ...