History of Gold in Alabama
Explore Alabama: Gold is still being found in Alabama, mostly in the form of lode gold mining, also called hard rock mining and placer gold found in soils and gravel.
Continue readingTag: History of Alabama 1830
LOWNDES COUNTY ALABAMA
Lowndes County was formed from Montgomery, Dallas and Butler counties, by an act of the Alabama General Assembly on January 20, 1830. The county is named for South Carolina statesman William Lowndes. It is part of the Black Belt, where cotton plantations were developed in the antebellum years and agriculture continued as a dominant part of the economy into the 20th century.
Continue reading
TALLADEGA COUNTY ALABAMA
Talladega County Alabama Talladega County is a county of the state of Alabama. The county was established December 18, 1832
Continue reading
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their
Continue reading
Alabama Mines and Mining
Explore Alabama: 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.
Continue reading