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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Reporter i dont know if you can see the river behind me. Were not far away. It has been raining here since about 2 00, and its been coming down steadily. We ran into a crew from the Russian River keepers just a few miles here as they were battling on the rivers behalf. Don hauled rolls of straw up. The kinkaid fire burned down almost to the Russian River. And now this crew from the Russian River keepers is racing to beat the rain. Really the priority is there is about 80 some homes that are next to waterways. Reporter theyre pounding k. Hard work, but a lot easier, they say, than two years ago with the tubs fire. We had homes burned where we had curbs, gutters and sidewalks and that puts it right in our river. Reporter on the list of priorities, this property is the highest risk for contamination because the burm is 50 feet from the river. The county has not yet signed their contract to pay the crew for their work. But with the rains coming, they decided they couldnt wait. So they used