Singleton/Wimpy/Gail lard Homeplace
Dr. Joseph J. Singleton, first superintendent of the Dahlonega mint, purchased this property in 1836 and built a home the following year. His wife, Mary Ann Singleton, joined the Dahlonega Baptist...
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The Public Square
When surveyors laid out the original village, this square was designated The Public Square. The center of the Square was reserved for the construction of a courthouse, completed on 1836. The...
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Lumpkin Court House
This court house, built in 1836, replaced the small log structure used since the establishment of Lumpkin County in 1832. The town was named Dahlonega in October, 1833, for the Cherokee...
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Price Memorial Building
Erected here in 1837 was a U.S. Branch Mint which operated until seized by the Confederates in 1861. It produced gold coins estimated to exceed $6,000,000.00 in value. In 1871 the mint...
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Dahlonega Mustering Grounds
During the War Between the States nine companies were organized on this site: five were mustered here in 1861, two in 1862 and two in 1864. Men from other North Georgia counties came to Dahlonega...
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Gold Diggers' Road
This section of highway was once a part of the "Gold Diggers´ Road". One of the earliest ways used to reach this area during the Gold Rush days. Beginning on the Chestatee River to the east, where...
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The Station
This is the site of one the forts or stations used by the United States round up the Cherokee Indians for their removal to western reservations. General Winfield Scott, commander of the troops...
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Auraria
Auraria, (Gold), in 1832 the scene of Georgia´s first gold rush, was named by John C. Calhoun owner of a nearby mine worked by Calhoun slaves. Auraria and Dahlonega were the two real gold towns in...
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Consolidated Gold Mines
One mile southeast of here, from 1900 to 1906, the Dahlonega Consolidated Mining Company operated what is considered the largest gold plant ever constructed east of the Mississippi...
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Trahlyta's Grave
This pile of stones marks the grave of a Cherokee princess, Trahlyta. According to legend her tribe, living on Cedar Mountain north of here, knew the secret of the magic springs of eternal youth...
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Findley Ridge
Many famous gold mines of the Dahlonega era were along this ridge on both sides of this highway. The saprolite and vein gold mining operation along here contributed much to the $35,000,000 in...
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Calhoun Gold Mine
Famous Calhoun Gold Mine where it is said vein gold was first discovered in Georgia by white men. In 1828 while deer hunting Benjamin Parks, of Dahlonega, accidentally found quartz gold in pockets...
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Drexel Park
In 1916 five prominent Valdosta businessmen and civic leaders--William S. West, Lowndes W. Shaw, Leonard F. Shaw, Daniel C. Ashley, and Owen K. Jones--donated 11 acres to the city to create...
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Blue Star Memorial Highway
A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc Department of Transportation of Georgia The Garden Center and Valdosta Garden Clubs...
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Primitive Baptist Church
Built in 1869 by the Valdosta Baptist Church, this is the oldest extant Church building in Valdosta. The building was purchased by the Valdosta Primitive Baptist Church when it was constituted on...
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