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35639
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The Reed Gold Mine, located twenty miles east of Charlotte, boasted first discovering gold in the United States in 1799. Little Meadow Creek’s gold mining industry, beginning in the 1820s, revealed its lingering effects on the town at the present time. For the author, it was perceived in how visiting the Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site impacted her, her husband, and young son.
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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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