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This interesting tract of country contains four millions three hundred & sixty six thousand five hundred & fifty four acres, many rich gold mines & many delightful situations & though in some parts mountainous, some of the richest land belonging to…

Map showing the gold districts outlined by the Georgia General Assembly. There are over 10,000 lots shown here. This land was outlined despite the land officially being Cherokee Territory.

U.S. legislation that forced all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory,” which eventually became the state of Oklahoma. The relocation process and path became known as the "Trail…

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

Illustrations showing the new mining technologies of the early 1830s. The “hollow gum” (fig. 18) and inclined plane (fig. 19) allowed larger amounts of gravel to be washed while catching the particles of gold.

Photograph showing the practice of hydraulic mining in Dahlonega, GA, though decades after the height of the Georgia Gold Rush

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.

Photograph showing the town and surrounding areas of Dahlonega, Georgia

Legislation extending the corporate town limits of Dahlonega by a quarter of a mile in every direction from the town courthouse

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…