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Auraria Georgia gold rush boomtown
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Gold
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Large cents, half dimes, mining tools, cut nails, pipe bowls, early bottle glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1832-1850 Georgia Gold Rush boomtown
One of the first Georgia Gold Rush towns, briefly the Lumpkin County seat, Auraria had about 100 houses, some twenty stores, many law offices and taverns, and 1,000 people by May 1833. Dahlonega took the county seat and the mint, and the California and Colorado rushes drew off most of the remaining miners.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old mine shafts and pits, river
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