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Military Orders, Cherokee Removal, 17 May, 1838
Typewritten document, dated May 17, 1838, containing the orders pertaining to the removal of the Cherokee Indians remaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, to territory west of the Mississippi, according to the terms of the New…
Photograph, Dahlonega, Georgia
Photograph showing the town and surrounding areas of Dahlonega, Georgia
Photograph, Hydraulic Mining in the Decomposed Auriferous Slates, with their Vein Content, at the Singleton Mine, Dahlonega, Georgia, in A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Gold Deposits of Georgia, 1896
Photograph showing the practice of hydraulic mining in Dahlonega, GA, though decades after the height of the Georgia Gold Rush
Photograph, Miners Participating in Hydraulic Mining, undated
Photograph showing the destruction of hydraulic mining
Photograph, Stamp Mill, Undated
Photograph of a water-powered stamp mill
Photograph, Trestle pipe, undated
Photograph showing a trestle pipe carrying water across an area of land devastated by hydraulic mining
Postcard, Court House, Dahlonega, Georgia
Postcard showing the courthouse of the town of Dahlonega, Georgia. The courthouse was completed in 1836. Developed around the time of the Georgia Gold Rush, it was named the Lumpkin County seat in 1833.
Postcard, Dredging Gold, Dahlonega, GA, Undated
Dredge boats brought gravel up from river beds either by shovel, crane, or continuous ladder-bucket elevators. The tailings, or mud-like waste, was discharged back into the water or piled on the bank.
Report Cover, Nacoochee Hydraulic Mining Company of Georgia, ca. 1860s
Report cover depicted the name of a well-known mining company in Georgia
Report, The Gold Placers of the Vicinity of Dahlonega, Georgia, William P. Blake, 1859
Report by William P. Blake and Charles T. Jackson of gold placers near Dahlonega for the Yahoola River and Cane Creek Hydraulic Hose Mining Company