Discovery of Gold

In 1828, gold was discovered here on Duke`s Creek in White County by two people: John Witheroods of North Carolina, who found a 3-ounce nugget, and a Negro servant of Major Frank Logan of Louisville, Georgia, who also discovered gold on the creek. Early discoveries came almost simultaneously as prospectors drifted into Northeast Georgia from the North Carolina diggings. One merchant in the Nacoochee Valley purchased and shipped 1 to 1.5 million dollars worth of gold over a thirty-year period. The pits visible along the creek are evidence of recent hydraulic mining.

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