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Bechtler died in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Bechtler and his successors' private mint in Rutherford County, North Carolina, was run from 1831 through the 1850s and produced more than a million gold coins in the period between 1831 and 1841. Bechtler's precision and the reliable gold content of his coins allowed him to prevail against other ...
[1]: 20, 27, 48 1839-C $5 Gold Coin. 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, [2] 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.
Next was the construction of the U.S. Post Office in 1798, and the establishment of the Rutherfordton Academy in 1806. [7] Rutherfordton was at the center of the flourishing North Carolina gold industry between 1790 and 1840. [8] During that period, 70% of the American gold supply came from western North Carolina. [9]
Rutherford County is a county in the southwestern area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,444. [1] Its county seat is Rutherfordton. [2] Rutherford County comprises the Forest City, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area.
In the United States, gold mining has taken place continually since the discovery of gold at the Reed farm in North Carolina in 1799. The first documented occurrence of gold was in Virginia in 1782. [1] Some minor gold production took place in North Carolina as early as 1793, but created no excitement.
The Silver Hill Mine (originally named King's Mine and Washington Mine prior to 1854) was the first silver mine in the United States, later used primarily as a source of lead and zinc. Discovered during the Carolina gold rush at a Davidson County, North Carolina location later named Silver Hill , operations began at the site in 1839 under the ...
The belt is best known for old abandoned gold mines. North Carolina led the nation in gold production for 50 years , between the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget at the Reed Gold Mine in Cabarrus County, NC near Charlotte in 1799 and the discovery of gold during the California Gold Rush of 1849.
Rutherfordton: 11: Gilbert Town Historic District: Gilbert Town Historic District: August 23, 2006 : Along sections of Rock Rd. (NC 1520) and Old Gilbert Town Rd. (NC 1539) Rutherfordton: 12: Henrietta-Caroleen High School