Gold Furnace

A gold furnace was commonly used to separate mercury from the gold. In gold placer mining, in which small specks and veins of gold were often found in quartz, mercury was used to separate the gold from the quartz. This ...

Edwin Franko Goldman

1878 – 1956

A Landmark of American Music

The Guggenheim Concerts by the world renowned Goldman Band were played here “on the mall” every summer from 1923 to 1969.

Presented by the

National Music Council and Exxon

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Gold Star Families

Spouses • Children • Parents • Siblings

In Memory Of Our Loved Ones

You Will Never Be Forgotten

Freedom Is Not Free

Dedicated Nov. 2003

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American Gold Star Mothers

Perpetuating The Noble Principles

For Which They Fought And Died

Our Legacy:

Out of tragedy we were formed

Out of love we continue

Representing the noble principles for which

they fought and died

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Thar’s Gold in Them Hills!

You might think the discovery of gold led to instant success, but that was not the case.

Early miners lacked the capital to develop the mines. The Sierra Buttes Gold Mining Co. Ltd. bought the mines in the 1860’s and developed ...

Cañon City / The Gold Belt Tour

Bustling Center for Trade, Transportation, and Tourism

Cañon City

During the late 18th and early 19th Century, Cañon City prospered as a trade and transportation center serving the agriculture and mining industries of the region. From its earliest days, Cañon City attracted ...

Weaverville Basin Gold Discovery Site

In the bend of Rich Gulch near its junction with Ash Hollow five miners worked the winter of 1849-50, with the use of a log hollowed out to make a rocker. The rich pocket yielded five pounds of gold per ...

Samuel Brannan and the Gold Rush

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Saco native Samuel Brannan became one of the country’s richest men promoting the California gold rush, and one of the most colorful figures in California history, but he wasn’t a gold miner and he died in ...

Golden Gate

The Golden Gate of Yellowstone occupies an area in northwestern Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, where a steep, narrow road passes through the mountainside. The Grand Loop Road hugs the walls along Golden Gate Canyon above Glen Creek and forms a ...

National Historic Landmark - Reed Gold Mine

National Historic Landmark - Reed Gold Mine

Nuggets found here in 1799 set off the first gold rush in the United States.

North Carolina mines furnished much of the gold minted in Philadelphia before 1829.

The mines were largely depleted by 1860.

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