There's Gold In Them Eastern Hills, Too

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CONNECTICUT: Placer gold has been found in a number of locations, including Ansonia, Bristol, Cheshire, East Hampton, Litchfield, Middletown, Montville, New Haven, Newtown, North Stonington, Sandy Hook, West Haven, and Woodbury.

GEORGIA: Millions of dollars' worth of gold was both panned and mined from the mineral beds of Georgia, andup until the discovery of the precious metal in California-Georgia and North Carolina were the infant United States' principal sources of gold. A U.S. mint office was established at Dahlonega to coin the yields of this early-day rush. The main areas of Georgian gold production were in Carroll, Cobb, Cherokee, Hall, Dawson, Forsyth, Habersham, Lumpkin, Oconee, Rabun, and White Counties.

INDIANA: The 1879 Geological Survey report states that good samples of placer gold were taken from streams in Indiana's Brown and Morgan Counties (the best being Bean Blossom Creek in Brown County). Other creeks throughout the state have also produced gold, but none has yielded commercial quantities of the metal.

KENTUCKY: Nuggets have frequently been found in Cat and Cow Creeks in Powell County. Over the years, the streams around Furnace Mountain in Estill County have interested local prospectors, and both nuggets and placer have been found in these waterways from time to time. Menifee, and Wolfe Counties have also produced gold in quantity.

MARYLAND: Maryland's first gold was discovered in Montgomery County near Sandy Spring in 1849. The Piedmont Plateau area has also yielded very good samples . . . that contained gold, silver, and lead. Some mines in this area were in operation from 1867 until about 1900.

MISSISSIPPI: The State Geologist reported-in 1857-that both gold and silver had been found in assay samples taken along Big Bear and Cedar Creeks. Native copper nuggets and gold dust were sometimes found together in this part of the state.

NEW JERSEY: Surprisingly, almost every New Jersey assay sample that I could find showed from .5% to 8% silver content in the iron ore. Some ores from the Cranberry Lake area in Sussex County contained 54% iron, 34.4% silver, and a trace of gold.

NORTH CAROLINA: From the time gold was first commercially mined in 1800 until the economy outran the low price of gold in about 1900, North Carolina's mines and placer sites produced precious metals worth over $22 million. The discoveries were almost statewide, with the principal counties being Cabarrus, Davidson, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Nash, Rowan, and Stanly.

PENNSYLVANIA: Gold has been discovered in streams and rock formations in Adams, Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, Montgomery, and York Counties. Samples taken in Bucks show assays of up to 3-1/2 ounces of gold per ton.

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