SYMHC Classics: Georgia Gold Rush

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This 2018 episode covers the period in the late 1820s when north Georgia became the site of a gold rush that predated the California gold rush by two decades. It's also tied to some of the darkest parts of U.S. history regarding the treatment of Native Americans.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.2	Happy Saturday.
0:07.8	Today's classic is on the Georgia Gold Rush, which has some connections to our recent
0:12.5	episode on Mary Golder Ross.
0:15.0	Specifically, it gives a little bit more detail on state and federal efforts to remove
0:20.4	the Cherokee from North Georgia in the early 19th century.
0:24.6	When this episode initially came out, we got some messages from listeners about whether the 1799 discovery of gold in North Carolina, which we mentioned in this episode, should have been described as the first gold rush in the U.S.
0:38.2	rather than the Georgia gold rush.
0:40.1	And the answer is, maybe.
0:42.5	The initial discovery in North Carolina definitely predated the discovery that sparked the Georgia gold rush.
0:49.2	But the biggest peak of the rush in North Carolina was mostly after the big rush in Georgia.
0:55.2	Yeah, and it's often difficult to conclusively say which thing was the first
0:59.9	when there were various gold discoveries in the U.S. Also, please pardon our mispronunciation of
1:07.7	placerbining, something we actually mispronounced again in another episode
1:12.6	after this one, before someone brought it to our attention, that it is not pronounced placer,
1:18.6	like it looks like it would be said based on how it is spelled.
1:22.6	This episode originally came out on August 27, 2018.
1:26.7	Enjoy.
1:30.0	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.
1:40.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
1:43.4	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson. And today's episode is a bit of
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