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Record #:
35086
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A collection of short stories from western North Carolina concerning the hiding of gold or money. The story titles are: “The Old Miser’s Pot of Gold,” “The Crazy Prospector,” and “Gold Nuggets of the Valley.”
Record #:
35152
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A collection of stories dealing with gold and ore mining in North Carolina. The stories included are: “Gold is Discovereed: the Reed Mine,” “A Deep Grave,” “Bechtler Coins,” “Gold Hill,” “The Newmon Brothers,” “Catastrope down in the Randolph Shaft,” and “Ore Knob,” which includes a ballad.
Record #:
35855
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Five decades before the famous Gold Rush in California, there was a discovery of this precious metal in Cabarrus County by a farmer, John Reed. Gold Fever can still be experienced in mines like the Cotton Patch in New London and Reed Mine near Concord.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, May 1980, p25-26