North Carolina
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North Carolina
1799 A.D.
Gold was first discovered in the United States in North Carolina around 1799 according to the record books. A twelve-year-old boy was fishing in a creek on his father’s farm when he noticed something shiny under the water. The shiny object was, in fact, a large gold nugget. Likely the most interesting part of this other than their discovery was that neither the boy nor his father recognized the rock for what it was. They liked the look of the bulky rock and used it as a doorstop for more than two years before a friend recognized the rock as gold. The doorstop golden nugget weighed at seventeen pounds!
Imagine. It's the 1790s and you find a seventeen-pound, solid gold rock. At today’s prices, the chunky rock would be worth around
$500,000. Once their discovery became known, in the weeks to follow, more gold would be found along that same creek, both in the water and on the banks. GOLD had been discovered in America!
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