The Georgia Gold Rush

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1820s, north Georgia became the site of the first gold rush in the United States, predating the more famous 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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0:08.4	There is some kind of mystical force in this region
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0:13.5	There's something beyond our understanding going on here.
0:16.1	Starring Supernatural's, Misha Collins,
0:18.2	The Walking Dead's, Melissa Panzio, and Rogue One's Allentutic,
0:22.2	written by Lauren Chippen and created by me, Erin Mankey.
0:25.6	Listen to Bridgewater on the I Heart Radio app
0:28.0	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.2	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class
0:33.9	from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:35.6	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.5	I'm Holly Frye and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:46.7	And today's episode is a bit of history
0:48.7	that is local to me and our offices in Atlanta,
0:51.8	but I will confess a whole big blind spot
0:55.0	in my historical knowledge about it.
0:57.2	I had only the vaguest idea about there having been
1:00.4	gold mining in Georgia.
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