How to pan for gold at the Carolina Gold Rush Heritage Event
How to pan for gold at the Carolina Gold Rush Heritage Event
Less than an hour’s drive east of Charlotte, there’s a place that’ll make it feel like it’s still the gold rush.
Reed Gold Mine is in Midland, North Carolina, and is where the first documented gold was discovered in the United States.
According to Reed Gold Mine, then-12-year-old Conrad Reed was playing near Little Meadow Creek in 1799 when he found a 17-pound yellow rock. History says the Reed family didn’t know what Conrad had discovered, so they took it to a silversmith in nearby Concord. But since no one had identified gold in America yet, the silversmith didn’t know what it was.
At that point, the Reed family decided to use the yellow rock as a doorstop.
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