-
Conrad Reed discovers gold nuggets and the first US gold rush.
-
-
Not a long time after it, Conrad's discovery becomes famous.
-
William Thornton of Baltimore, Maryland, forms the NC Gold Mine Company.
-
Matthias Barringer discovered that gold can be found in veins of white quartz.
-
Conrad's discovery makes NC the
"golden state". -
More states followed NC's "footsteps" into having gold mines.
-
A new mint would be under construction. It was finished in 1837.
-
People who came to North Carolina at the time of the gold rush did not stay very long, and it soon turned out that California had become the new golden state; it "stole the name right out from under North Carolina"!
