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Photo Gallery: Cherokee County Gold
Marker text:
Cherokee County, located along Georgia's gold belt, figured
prominently in the gold rush of the 1830's and 40's. Several mines operated
along a five mile area near the Etowah River in the northeastern part of the
county, including the Franklin-Creighton, Sandow, and Latham Mines. More
than 30 other small placer mines extended southwesterly across the county
and included the Sixes Mine, worked earlier by the Cherokees. After the
1860's, most gold mining operations in the county either slowed or ceased.
The most successful, and the most sophisticated, the Franklin-Creighton,
continued operations until 1913, when a shaft collapsed and the mine was
flooded.
028-4 Georgia Historic Marker 1988
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