Visit Georgias Pine Mountain Gold Museum

The Pine Mountain Gold Museum in Villa Rica, Georgia chronicles the discovery of gold in this area of west Georgia in the mid 1820s. The site of the first major gold rush in the state was 75 miles northeast of Villa Rica in the town of Dahlonega. However, gold was found in a band stretching from the northeast Georgia mountains as far to the southwest as the Villa Rica area. The gold rush in Georgia lasted into the 1840s and was one of the factors leading to the removal of the Cherokee and

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