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In 1829, gold was discovered in the north Georgia mountains, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush, the second gold rush in U.S. history. A federal mint was established in Dahlonega, Georgia , and continued to operate until 1861.
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 .
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 [1] – 30 June 1785) was a British Army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America.
The Province of Georgia [1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to support the American Revolution. The original land grant of the Province of Georgia included a narrow strip of land that extended west to the Pacific Ocean. [2]
In Jacksonville, just south of the newly discovered Georgia mangroves, average winter temperatures have risen 3.4 degrees over the past half-century, according to the organization Climate Central.
A boy who was abducted from Georgia seven years ago has been found. Abdul Aziz Khan, now 14, was found in Colorado on Feb. 23, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday, March 5.
The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732, Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new ...
Bodies found at Georgia funeral home were there for months, reports say. Douglas Now reported that Johnson, who ran for county coroner earlier this year and lost, was relocating his business to a ...