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Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The First Book of History, for Children and Youth (Jenks, Palmer & co., 1849), p. 101.

North Carolina Gold Rush

In 1799, a young boy in Cabarrus County found a huge gold nugget in a streambed. It was the first discovery of gold in the United States. In this chapter of the North Carolina digital history textbook you’ll learn about the nation’s first gold rush and its impact on North Carolina.

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