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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 .
Gold Hill: 12: Lentz Hotel: Lentz Hotel: June 14, 1982 : College St. Mount Pleasant: The Lentz Hotel in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, is an historic site built in 1853 that is the oldest commercial building in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. 13
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
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.
Cabarrus County (/ k ə ˈ b ɛər ə s / 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]
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 ...
Daniel Isenhour House and Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Gold Hill, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site.
The 1799 discovery of gold in Cabarrus County by John Reed sparked the first gold rush of the early United States. North Carolina became a national center of mining and prospecting, with mining becoming the state's second-largest industry behind agriculture. [5]