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As of 2006, Rebecca Lewis was assistant site manager at Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site in Cabarrus County. She was program coordinator of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association from 1999 to 2003.

Resources created by Rebecca Lewis

The North Carolina Gold Rush
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 6.1
Gold was discovered in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, in 1799, and within a few years, the North Carolina Gold Rush was on. Men arrived in the Piedmont to work in the mines, many of them from Cornwall in England.
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By Rebecca Lewis.