Georgia's Forgotten Gold Rush – Villa Rica, GA
Georgia's Forgotten Gold Rush – Villa Rica, GA
A sample of the documentary being played at the Villa Rica Gold Museum outside West Atlanta. The film features evidence of Villa Rica being Georgia’s earliest gold discovery, sparking the first and often overlooked- gold rush in American history. These Georgia gold mining techniques and skills provided the foundation and expertise for the 49’ers years later in California. Produced by MidSouth Visual, Inc., a Nashville video production agency.
My 3X great grandfather had 2 gold mines in Carroll county but spent all the profits trying to fight the war of northern aggression😂
Yup we pushed the Cherokee out bc we lusted for that gold in Georgia in 1830 greedy b
Anybody know the title of the movie?
I live in Villa Rica.. Very cool place.. 🙂
I live in Villa Rica
IIRC….Coker Creek Tennessee was mined in 1818. The Cherokee were driven out of the East Tennessee area into Northern Georgia. Echota (The Cherokee capital) was originally just northeast of Cleveland Tennessee, and then was moved to North Georgia where it is now known as ‘New Echota’.
Believe it or not, the ‘Trail of Tears’ was fueled by the gold rushes……………we just had to get the Cherokee to sign treaties to make the land take over official.
Is there a place to go and pan there? If I lived there id be exploring a lot.
It must be a case of mass amnesia if no one remembered gold was found here in 1826. In fact, it wasn’t. The first mention of gold in Carroll County does not occur until May of 1830. This was 9 months after the FIRST gold discovery was announced in Georgia newspapers as being found on Duke’s Creek in Habersham County. Villa Rica never had a gold rush, nor was it discovered prior to 1829.
What’s the title of this documentary
Dahlonega found gold first. my home town yo.
The first gold rush of any significance was actually in North Carolina 30 years before the Georgia discovery.
The gold from Georgia wasn’t much compared to California and Alaska but it was,of a higher purity..22 k
It was so pure that the U.S. Government used it for minting coins.
Very true, and later in the film it addresses the fact that the Cherokee were continually pushed from their land so the gold could be harvested. Very tragic, like most all of early settling of America.
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If so called black people knew that this [north American parcel] was not just their property but their birthright, you all wouldn’t be so happy about some beautiful rocks, lol! Stay blessed!
I live in douglasville
Yea
Georgia is said to be rich in gold.
Thanks for the feedback. We couldn’t be overly concerned with exact date accuracy of pictures, since the ones shown were the only ones we could find in archives. I’m surprised that you weren’t brought into the project for consulting if you’re one of VR’s historians…we could have used you I’m sure!
All gold is originally from outer space.
DuckDuckGo it.
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The Whisenhunt family was there during the war of northern aggression. 6 brothers fought for the Confederacy. My great, great grandfather was in the Carrol county invincibles. His brother William Warren Whisenhunt died the day Atlanta fell
i live in villa rica
My 3rd great-grandfather fought in the Civil War with the Georgia 19th Volunteers also know as the "Villa Rica Gold Diggers!"
Good video overall, well researched does sound like VR is the first gold rush in US (which is Cabarrus County, NC ca. 1800) but VR gold rush mid-1820s was first in Georgia.
Interesting talk on gold formation.
Berry’s Pharmacy (1890s) sounds like 1830s.
The Georgia capital shown is the 1889 Atlanta capitol and not the Milledgeville Capitol in the early 1800s.
The City of Villa Rica sign shown in video is now gone (Dec 2007.
Ernest E. Blevins, MFA
Historian/Hist. Preservation
Villa Rica
The music is absolutely ridiculous
i live in rilla vica
i live in villa rica
the narrator sounds like Lorene Green from Bonanza.