Articles https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/ Articles Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:53:54 +0000 Women's History Month: Women Who Broke the Mold & Panned for Gold https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/post/womens-history-month-women-who-broke-the-mold-and-panned-for-gold/ https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/post/womens-history-month-women-who-broke-the-mold-and-panned-for-gold/#comments https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/post/womens-history-month-women-who-broke-the-mold-and-panned-for-gold/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 14:18:02 -0500

Historically there hasn't been much written about the contributions in which women made as prospectors and miners. Digging for gold is very physically demanding and it wasn't viewed as something that

]]> Hall's Block: Putting the Cart Before the (Iron) Horse https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/post/halls-block-putting-the-cart-before-the-iron-horse/ https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/post/halls-block-putting-the-cart-before-the-iron-horse/#comments https://www.dahlonega.org/articles/post/halls-block-putting-the-cart-before-the-iron-horse/ Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:21:23 -0500

Almost a decade after the end of the Civil War, the gold mining outlook for Lumpkin County was finally starting to improve. Although no battles had been fought around Dahlonega, the economy of the

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