The Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site is a

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state

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located in

Dahlonega The city of Dahlonega () is the county seat of Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 5,242, and in 2018 the population was estimated to be 6,884. Dahlonega is located at the north end of ...

that commemorates America's first

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and the

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

history of Lumpkin County. The museum is housed in the historic Old Lumpkin County Courthouse built in 1836 and located in the center of the

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. It is the oldest surviving

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courthouse in the state. The museum houses many artifacts from the gold rush of 1836, including gold nuggets,

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, and gold panning equipment, as well as an

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and

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Annual events

*Gold Rush Days (October) *Dahlonega's Old Fashion Christmas Celebration (December) *Dahlonega Gold Museum Open House (December)

Gallery

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References

External links

Dahlonega Gold Museum State Historic Site'Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills': Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s
from the

Digital Library of Georgia The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is an online, public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia, United States. The collection includes more than a million digitized objects from more than 200 Georg ...

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