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1019806 [1] Courtney is an unincorporated community in southeastern Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. The area is in the county's South Liberty Township and bounded on the north by Yadkinville and extending south to the Davie County line and community of Wyo. To the east is the community of Huntsville, and west is Lone Hickory.
66000587 [1] Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. 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.
Gold-quartz veins are found in the schists. [ 1] : 20, 27, 48. 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 ...
91001412 [1] Added to NRHP. June 11, 1992. Wilson Kindley Farm and Kindley Mine is a historic home, farm, gold mine, and national historic district located near Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina. The Wilson Kindley House was built around 1873, and is a two-story, single-pile, three-bay, vernacular Greek Revival style brick dwelling.
2404693 [ 3] Website. www .hickorync .gov. Hickory is a city in North Carolina primarily located in Catawba County and is the 25th most populous city in North Carolina. It is located approximately 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Charlotte. Hickory's population in the 2022 United States Census Bureau estimate was 44,084.
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.
US annual gold production (1840–2012) 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.
December 31, 1990. 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. The house was built about 1846, and is a two ...