Any body live in North Carolina?

[Robert2300]

This is an interesting story.
Lets you know just how much is oout there still undiscovered.

http://news.yahoo.com/spanish-fort-built-gold-hunters-discovered-131513703.html

Before there was Jamestown and even before there was Roanoke, there was Spain's Fort San Juan, in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of the fort built by gold-hunting Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century and say it's the oldest European garrison ever found in the interior of the United States.

 

[widebody]

[size=large]my understanding is that at the same time as the 1849 gold rush in californicate there was a bigger find in N.C. but the gov't, wanting folks to populate cal. downplayed N.C. and so we don't hear much of that one even though there is more gold in N.C. ya want gold, follow the spaniards. they seemed to know where to find it.

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[dirtmaster]

North Carolina was the scene of the first gold rush in America. In 1799 Conrad Reed discovered the first gold in America when he came across an 18 pound gold nugget. I lived only about 7 miles from the historic Reed mine. Its a tourist attraction there now but there is still gold in the area. My dad grew up in Gold Hill NC which was a gold mining camp. During its peak years Gold mining in NC was 2nd only to farming as far as people employed. Google Reed Gold Mine and Gold Hill NC. It makes for interesting reading. They never found the motherlode in Gold Hill as it got too expensive to mine back then. Makes one ponder if it would be worth the effort to reopen mining there with gold prices what they are today.

 

[dirtmaster]

http://www.nchistoricsites.org/reed/main.htm

 

[jimmy]

North Carolina is indeed an interesting mix of potential treasures, I live in Smithfield N.C. and started metal detecting back in 1979, since that time I have found numerous items including Civil War relics, old coins, and I got my 1 st nugget about 3 miles from where the Reed Mine historical site. Over the years I have fund over 22 oz's of natural gold between N.C, and my 200 acre claim I had in alaska from 2003-2009. North Carolina has a lot of Gold but access is very limited almst non-existant (Thats why I went to Alaska), I found my oldest spanish real last winter at topsail island beach (1740) so there is also still some pirate loot here. I currently use an Etrac, but used a Mxt from 2002 -20012. I love this state!!

 

[Dtektor]

In response to your original question, yes, quite a few of us do