The year was 1828, two decades before the California Gold Rush. Benjamin Parks, a humble deer hunter, tripped over an awfully shiny rock and set off North Georgia’s gold rush. In the year that ...
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6 Best Places To Go Gem Mining in The Smokies

One of the fascinations of my brother’s youth was rocks, gems, arrowheads and fossils –ancient treasures you could pull out ...