Carolina Gold Rush

The first signs of the Carolina Gold Rush were in the the 1790s when a young boy named Conrad Reed found a 17-pound shiny rock while playing in a creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. He and his family kept it as a doorstop until 1802 when his father took it to a jeweler who recognized it as gold and bought it from an unaware Reed for $3.50. A year later Conard Reed found a 28-pound nugget of gold. Through these finds word spread and men started coming from all across the colonies. This gold rush coincided with the Georgia Gold Rush.

The Charlotte Mint

In 1835, Andrew Jackson signed into law a bill which would open three branch mints: in Charlotte, North Carolina, in Dahlonega, Georgia (both only for minting gold coinage), and in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ones in Charlotte and Dalonaga were to mint the newly discovered gold.

References

* [http://www.austincoins.com/Charlotte-Mint.htm]

ee also

*Georgia Gold Rush
*Charlotte Mint
*Dahlonega Mint