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Louina Alabama

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:03:11 +0000

Louina Alabama was settled by the Indians, pushed to Alabama by the white settlers from the overcrowded east in the 1830s. Louina’s trading post quickly became the metropolis of its day with the area producing quantities of gold. Today Louina is a ghost town.
According to tradition and folklore, the Louina area coughed up gold and silver.

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Hog Mountain Goldmine

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 05:30:23 +0000

The largest occurrence of gold in Alabama was found in the Hog Mountain District of Tallapoosa County in 1839. It has produced about 25,000 ounces of gold, or about half of Alabama's total gold production.

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Cleburne County Alabama Gold Mines

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 05:03:46 +0000

This Cleburne County Alabama Gold Mines information is for reference purposes only. You should never attempt to visit any sites listed without first ensuring that you have the permission of the land and/or mineral rights holders and that you are aware of all safety precautions necessary.

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Alabama Mines and Mining

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 03:36:45 +0000

Alabama mining region, rich and prolific as it is, does not monopolize all the mineral wealth of Alabama. In several of the counties of the Tennessee valley, in portions of the “cotton belt,” and also in the far south, called the “timber belt,” minerals have been found in more or less profusion.

Gold was first discovered in Alabama about the year 1830, and states that, shortly afterward, the placers and gravel washes became the seats of an active industry in the counties of Cleburne, Talladega, Randolph, Tallaposa, Coosa, Chilton, and perhaps, also of Clay. No record of these operations has been preserved; all that is now known is that large numbers of men were engaged in the work and that in some places, at least, it was found profitable.

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Alabama King Mine

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:37:18 +0000

Gold deposits are documented at "Alabama King Mine." Gold is present at a grade sufficient to have a strong effect on the economics of an excavation project. It may even be viable as the only commodity mined.

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Arbacoochee Alabama

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:10:32 +0000

Arbacoochee in Cleburne County, Alabama was the site where gold was first discovered in Alabamam in 1832. Arbacoochee was located near the present CR-42 between SH 46 & SH 9, nine miles southeast of Heflin, Alabama.This was a gold-mining town that was established in the mid 1830s. By 1845 the population had grown to around 5,000 people, with most of the residents living in either tents or shacks.

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Wedowee Alabama

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 04:42:54 +0000

Wedowee Alabama is a small town, population 818, located in east-central Alabama and is the county seat of Randolph County. Early writers on the town reported on the purity of the area's streams and rivers, its fertile soils, and significant deposits of gold, copper, iron and mica.

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Goldville Alabama

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:56:28 +0000

The name of the area derives from the discovery of large gold deposits in the area. The area was so popular with prospecters that at one time the temporary post office of Goldville handled more mail in a day than New York City.

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Chulafinnee Alabama

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:05:04 +0000

Chulafinnee was a gold mining town about 12 miles south of Heflin, AL. During the boom years, it was about half the size of Arbacoochee, but had more brick buildings.
The mine filed was destroyed by one of the King brothers that were prospectors in the area.
The town was still listed on the state maps as late as 1878.

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