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…
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.