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The GOLD SEEKERS

Other University of South Carolina Press Books

_________ by Nancy Roberts _________

South Carolina Ghosts:
From the Coast to the Mountains

This Haunted Southland:
Where Ghosts Still Roam

Ghosts of the Carolinas

Ghosts of the Southern
Mountains and Appalachia

Nancy Roberts

The GOLD SEEKERS

Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California

University of South Carolina Press

Copyright University of South Carolina 1989

Cloth and paperback editions published by the University of South Carolina Press, 1989 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2013

www.sc.edu/uscpress

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ISBN 0-87249-657-0

0-87249-658-9 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 8922563

ISBN 978-1-61117-360-4 (ebook)

Contents

Acknowledgments

Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

The Carolina Gold Rush: Americas First, by Bruce Roberts. S&L Sales, Industrial Boulevard, Waycross, Georgia (Donation of Bruce Roberts photos)

Colorado Historical Society, 1300 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203

Denver Public Library, 1357 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203-2165

Hodge, Robert A., 417 Pelham Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401 (Virginia Gold Rush)

Hunter, Richard E., Jr., Clerk of Court, Warrenton, North Carolina (General Thomas J. Green, will)

Le Fevre, Byron and Vera, Dahlonega, Georgia

North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina (Harpers Monthly sketches)

William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Manuscript Department, Adeline Ellery Davis Green Papers)

Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Manuscript Department, Horn Papers)

University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas (Map of Russell brothers trips West)

Division of Mineral Resources, Natural Resources Building, McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903

Virginia State Library, Twelfth & Capitol Streets, Richmond, Virginia 25219

Fact and Fiction

This book strives for an honest blend of history and fiction and the reader is entitled to know which is which.

1. THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN NORTH CAROLINA

Based on historical fact.

Sources

Asbury, Daniel. Gold Mines at Gold Hill, Rowan County, N.C. Mining Magazine, Vol. 1 1853.

Becker, G. F. Reconnaissance of the Gold Fields of the Southern Appalachians. U.S. Geological Survey, 16th Annual Report, 1894, pt. 3, pp. 251319.

Boyd, William K.History of North Carolina: The Federal Period, 1783-1860. Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1919.

Glass, Brent D. King Midas and the Old Rip: The Gold Hill Mining District of North Carolina. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina.

Green, Fletcher M. Gold Mining: A Forgotten Industry of Ante-Bellum North Carolina. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. XLV, Jan. 1937, Number 1.

Hurley, Thomas Jefferson. Famous Gold Nuggets of the World. Doubleday, New York, 1900.

Knapp, Richard F. Golden Promise in the Piedmont: The Story of John Reeds Mine. Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1975.

Nitze, H. B. C. Gold mining in the Southern States. Engineering Magazine, Vol. 10, 1896.

Nitze, H. B. C. and G. B. Hanna. Gold Deposits of North Carolina. North Carolina Geological Survey, Bulletin 3, 1896.

Nitze, H. B. C. and H. A. J. Wilkins. Gold Mining in North Carolina and Adjacent South Appalachian Regions. North Carolina Geological Survey, Bulletin 10, 1897.

Pardee, J. T. and C. F. Park, Jr. Gold Deposits of the Southern Piedmont. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Professional Paper 213, 1948.

Roberts, Bruce. The Carolina Gold Rush: Americas First. McNally and Loftin, Publishers, Charlotte, N.C., 1971.

2. THE SPECTER OF THE REED MINE

A ghost story based on the legend about Engine Shaft at the Reed Gold Mine, North Carolina State Historic Site near Charlotte, North Carolina.

3. THE LEGENDARY WALTER GEORGE

Based on historical fact.

Sources

Glass, Brent D. King Midas and the Old Rip: The Gold Hill Mining District of North Carolina. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina.

Laney, F. B. The Gold Hill Mining District of North Carolina. North Carolina Geological Survey, Bulletin 21, 1910.

The Gold Fields of North Carolina. Prospectus, North Carolina Gold Mining and Bullion Co., 18 Wall Street, New York City. Issued Oct. 1, 1891.

Roberts, Bruce.The Carolina Gold Rush: Americas First. McNally and Loftin, Publishers, Charlotte, N.C., 1971.

4. THE GRISLY GHOST OF GOLD HILL

A ghost story based on local lore.

5. THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN VIRGINIA

Based on historical fact.

Sources

Becker, G. F. Reconnaissance of the Gold Fields of the Southern Appalachians. U.S. Geological Survey, 16th Annual Report, 1894.

Green, Fletcher M. Gold Mining in Ante-Bellum Virginia. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. XLV, July 1937, No. 3.

Sweet, Palmer C. Gold in Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 19, 1980.

_______. Processes of Gold Recovery in Virginia. Virginia Minerals, Vol. 26, Aug. 1980, No. 3.

_______. Gold mines and prospects in Virginia. Virginia Minerals, Vol. 17, Aug. 1971, No. 1.

_______. Road Log to some abandoned gold mines of the Gold-Pyrite Belt, Northeastern Virginia. Virginia Minerals, Vol. 21, Feb. 1975, No. 1.

6. THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Based on historical fact.

Sources

Bradt, Harlan H., and Edmund Newton. Gold Mining at the Haile Mine in South Carolina. Mining Congress Journal, Oct. 1938.

Lieber, O. M. Fourth Annual Report on the Survey of South Carolina (for 1859), (1860).

McCauley, Camilla K., and J. Robert Butler. Gold Resources of South Carolina. Division of Geology, South Carolina State Development Board, Bulletin 32, 1966.

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