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James “Free Jim” Boisclair

By Kristyn Iodice on Feb. 22, 2016

Boisclair’s legacy is still remembered today by the gold mine which still bears his name that brought him so much notoriety in the 1840s as Dahlonega’s most famous African- American. Boisclair was…

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James “Free Jim” Boisclair

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