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.
Selection from a map of Georgia counties highlighting Lumpkin County, which became populated in part due to the Georgia Gold Rush. Dahlonega and Auraria are two important cities in the history of the Georgia Gold Rush.
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…