Dahlonega, Georgia Dahlonega, Georgia, USA Historic Lumpkin County Courthouse, which now homes the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site Historic Lumpkin County Courthouse, which now homes the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site Nickname(s): Gold City Location in Lumpkin County and the state of Georgia Location in Lumpkin County and the state of Georgia State Georgia The town/city of Dahlonega is the governmental center of county of Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 5,242. Dahlonega is positioned at the north end of Georgia 400, which joins Atlanta to many suburbs to the north.

In 1828 Dahlonega was the site of the first primary gold rush in the United States.

The Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site stands in the middle of the town square, homed in the 1836 Lumpkin County Courthouse.

From its steps in 1849, Dahlonega Mint assayor Dr.

Stephenson tried to persuade miners to stay in Dahlonega freshwater joining the California Gold Rush, saying, "There's millions in it," famously misquoted as "There's gold in them thar hills." Dahlonega is home to a ground of the University of North Georgia.

In 1829, Dahlonega became the site of the second momentous gold rush in the US and became a boom town of the Georgia Gold Rush.

Dahlonega was home to many Creeks and Cherokees.

There are a several Creek and Cherokee descendants in Dahlonega today, though not in distinct communities but scattered throughout the area.

The Cherokee called the region or Da-lo-ni-ge, which means yellow (from the Dikaneisdi (Word List) of the Cherokee Language); George Featherstonhough, an English geologist who visited the town in 1837, observed that the courthouse, designed by Ephriam Clayton, was assembled upon a broad expanse of hornblende slate "and that the soil of the enhance square was impregnated with small specks of gold." The courthouse building was paid for in part with gold bullion, using bricks likely made in Lumpkin County (although possibly transported from Augusta), with both its foundation contemporary and timber obtained locally. Since 1977, the state recognized tribe has been known as the Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee. In 1833 the town/city was titled Talonega by the Georgia General Assembly on December 21, 1833. The name was changed from Talonega by the Georgia General Assembly on December 25, 1837 to Dahlonega, from the Cherokee-language word Dalonige, meaning "yellow" or "gold". The town/city is just east of Auraria; each claims to be the site of the first discernment of gold.

Senator John Calhoun of South Carolina (7th Vice President of the United States) owned the Calhoun Mine, just south of the town/city square.

Historic specimen of High-grade gold ore from the Dahlonega mines The United States Mint assembled a branch mint here, which it directed from 1838 1861.

The Dahlonega Mint, like the one established in 1838 in Charlotte, North Carolina, only minted gold coins, in denominations of $1.00, $2.50 (quarter eagle), $3.00 (1854 only) and $5.00 (half eagle).

The Dahlonega Mint was a small operation, usually accounting for only a small fraction of the gold coinage minted annually in the US.

Given the large amount of gold identified in California from the late 1840s on, that one handled the nationwide needs of gold minting.

North Georgia College assembled Price Memorial Hall on its foundation. The building has a gold-leaf steeple to refer to the history of the site.

In recent years, Dahlonega and Lumpkin County have been recognized as "the heart of the North Georgia Wine Country".

The historic Dahlonega Square is also a prominent destination, t shops, restaurants, art arcades and studios, and wine tasting rooms.

In 2015, Senator Steve Gooch introduced Georgia Senate Resolution 125 officially recognizing Lumpkin County as the Wine Tasting Room Capital of Georgia.

The town was titled Dahlonega in October, 1833, for the Cherokee word Talonega meaning "golden." Stephenson, assayer at the Mint, attempted to dissuade Georgia miners from leaving to join the California Gold Rush.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.4 square miles (17 km2), all land.

The Lumpkin County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The precinct has 215 full-time teachers and over 3,511 students. Dahlonega is home to University of North Georgia (formerly titled North Georgia College and State University), North Georgia College and North Georgia Agricultural College, the Senior Military College of Georgia and the second earliest enhance college in the State of Georgia.

The University of North Georgia is one of six senior military universities (along with the Public Campuses of Texas A&M University, the Citadel, the Virginia Military Institute and Virginia Tech, and the Private Campus of Norwich University).

The rotunda dome of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta is also veiled with Dahlonega gold.

Wahsega 4-H Center, an surroundingal education center and summer camp owned by the University of Georgia and administered through the UGA Cooperative Extension Service Georgia 4-H program Camp Glisson, a year-round retreat camp owned by the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church List of twin suburbs and sister metros/cities in the United States The Neighborhood Mint: Dahlonega in the Age of Jackson.

Gold Rush Gallery, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Cited by Head, Sylvia and Etheridge, Elizabeth W.: The Neighborhood Mint: Dahlonega in the Age of Jackson, Gold Rush Gallery, Alpharetta, Georgia, 1986.

Price Memorial Building State Historical Marker (accessed 27 October 2006) Dahlonega Jaycees Georgia Historical Markers (accessed 27 October 2006) Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved 23 June 2010.

"Such Excitement You Never Saw": Gold Mining in Nineteenth-Century Georgia David Williams The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol.

695 707 Published by: Georgia Historical Society Article Stable URL: https://jstor.org/stable/4058 - 2597 I Remember Dahlonega: Memories of Growing Up in Lumpkin County, by Anne Dismukes Amerson (Chestatee Publishing: 1993) The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever.

City of Dahlonega Website Dahlonega Georgia Merchants Association "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s 1940s Municipalities and communities of Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States County seat: Dahlonega

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