Presenting our opening prayer, please welcome rob farnsworth. Lets pray. Gracious father, we thank you for the blessings you have given us. We think that we live in the most free and prosperous country in the history of the world. May you give us strength to continue to fight for liberty. Today, we pray for our president , donald trump, give him renewed wisdom, strength and protection. Guide his every decision that he will continue to fight for what we know is right and good. We pray for president for Vice President pence. He has been steadfast in all you have told him to do, so we ask that you honor him for his faithfulness and guide his every decision. For our members of congress, for our governor, for our legislature, for our local leaders, we pray for your wisdom and all the difficult decisions that come before them. We offer a special prayer for jason lewis, today, for a quick healing during his surgery. Psalmist said, bless the lord, and forget not his benefits, who forgives all
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
The 1800s. Good morning, everybody. In the areas immediately following 1848, the golds played a very Important Role in American History. If you think all the way back to the conquist arkconquistadors. And what happened was that the first gold was discovered and then suddenly people started pouring into the area in huge numberings 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. Heres the governor George Gilmer explaining what it was like meeting the miners in 1829. Many thousands of idle people flocked into georgia from every point on the compass. When loosed from the strengths of law and public opinion, made them like the evil one, in other words the devil. They collected around light wood firings at night and played on the ground and on their hats, cards, dice, push pins and other games of chance for their days finding
The topic of our lecture today is the history of the gold rush. I will talk mainly about california in the years immediately following 1848. But gold has played a very Important Role in American History. If you think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinated by was the quest for gold. And the history of their conquest, first of the aztecs and then of the incas, is an unquenchable desire for Precious Metals. Gold and also silver. When the first english settlers came to jamestown in 1607, what they were hoping to find was the same kind of supplies of gold that had been found by the spaniards. It was a source of bitter disappointment to not to find gold in whats now virginia. They brought with them jewelers and goldsmiths. But americas first gold rush took place close to where we are now in georgia in 1829. This was the georgia gold rush in north georgia. If you have been about 100 miles north of here you will have seen the old county courthouse has been converted