Traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving Technology Used to mine gold. Good morning everybody. The topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. But gold played a very, very Important Role in American History. Think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. An unquenchable desire for Precious Metals, gold above all, but also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold wa
But also silver. When the first settlers came to jamestown they were hoping to find the same supplies of gold found by the spaniards and bitter disappointment not to find gold in the whats now virginia and brought with them jewelers and gold smiths. Americas first gold rush took place in georgia in 1829 in north georgia. If youve been about 100 miles north, you would see the old lump kin county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. Its about 100 miles up the road. What happened was, first gold was discovered and people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. Until then this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. But suddenly now the White Settlement catches up very quickly. Here is the governor, george gilmore, describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flocked into georgia from every point of the compass whose pe
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Few high thin clouds upstairs right now. Ill give it a couple of hours and all this, this activity you see here will be pushing out to sea. Accuweather says expect a lot of sunshine this afternoon. Well zoom into double scan live delaware bay region. Millville southward east of dover. Getting ready to push into Cape May County there will be a brief period of spritz or sprinkle activity or brief passing shower. It sticks around 40, 45 minutes tops and its out of here. 76 degrees for philadelphia. 9 00 a. M. , lunchtime 83. Later this afternoon temperatures will hover in the upper 80s. 88 degrees but with lower humidity levels it will feel pretty nice out here. Sun is setting at 8 31, the days are actually getting a little bit shorter now unfortunately as summer is making its turn twardz towards fall. Storms developing next week, some of them will be on the stronger side along with that comes the increase in humidity. Ill run down all the details when i see you in just a bit. Crews were