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Auraria : the story of a Georgia gold-mining town

Title
Auraria : the story of a Georgia gold-mining town / E. Merton Coulter.
Author
Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), 1890-1981
Publication
  • Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [1956]
  • ©1956

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Description
x, 149 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
In the 1830's the town of Auraria, located in north Georgia, grew up and reached its zenith. Herein is the colorful story of this exciting gold-mining town, the first in American history, antedating by almost two decades the mining booms in the West. But Auraria dwindled and faded until in the twentieth century it became one of the dead towns. In placing Auraria in its proper perspective the author goes beyond a mere local study and brings in historic developments which concerned the South and the nation as a whole --Page 2 of cover.
Subject
  • Geschichte
  • Gold mines and mining > Georgia > History
  • Gold mines and mining
  • Goldsuche
  • Auraria (Ga.)
  • Georgia
  • Georgia > Auraria
  • Auraria, Ga
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages133-137) and index.
Contents
Gold in the hills -- Merchants, bankers, lawyers, barbers, doctors, in Auraria -- Editor, preachers, schoolmasters -- Crime in Aurarialand -- Life in Auraria -- Government and politics -- Auraria versus Dahlonega -- The dissolution of Auraria.
LCCN
56013005
OCLC
  • ocm00713117
  • 713117
  • SCSB-584367
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library