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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site is a Georgia state historic site located in Dahlonega that commemorates America's first gold rush [1] [2] and the mining history of Lumpkin County. [3] The museum is housed in the historic Old Lumpkin County Courthouse built in 1836 and located in the center of the town square.
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega , and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains , following the Georgia Gold Belt .
Georgia Gold Belt showing, southwest to northeast, the Sixes, Franklin, Strickland, Kin Mori, Barlow, Wells, Findley, Loud, Smith, and Moore Gold mines. Gold-quartz veins are found in the schists and gneiss. [1]: 19, 27, 48 Gold veinlets (they appear white) in a sample of gneiss from the Battle Branch Mine in Lumpkin County
The Wormsloe Historic Site, originally known as Wormsloe Plantation, is a state historic site near Savannah, Georgia, in the southeastern United States.The site consists of 822 acres (3.33 km 2) protecting part of what was once the Wormsloe Plantation, a large estate established by one of Georgia's colonial founders, Noble Jones (c. 1700-1775).
Ruffʼs Mill (1840s) and the Millerʼs House (c. 1850), along with Concord Covered Bridge, exemplify the small, rural water-powered mill complexes that were common in Georgia and the South in the mid-to-late-19th century. Located on former Cherokee land, the land lots comprising this complex were won in the Georgia Gold and
Etowah Indian Mounds are a 54-acre (220,000 m 2) archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville.Built and occupied in three phases, from 1000–1550 CE, the prehistoric site is located on the north shore of the Etowah River.
This house is a 5,000-square-foot (460 m 2), 1850s-style home built of heart pine. [ 7 ] In 1974, Dick Jarrell's nine surviving adult children donated the plantation site to the State of Georgia for the preservation of the farm and the education of future generations about their heritage.