A Little Gold Mining History

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If you look closely you'll see the date on the newspaper article is December 1856.

Dr. Marcus Van Dyke was building a flume line to get water to another area for gold mining when this accident happened. I saw an article in the Poteet Genealogy that told of this accident and this young man being killed. I found this archived newspaper article and I was aware of an old Poteet Cemetery located about one mile from my place, Treasure Valley in the South Mountain Gold Belt in Western North Carolina. This cemetery is approximately a quarter of a mile up in the woods where a couple of Civil War Veterans are buried so I go to the cemetery and sure enough here is the young man's tombstone. The Ironic thing is that this is property owned today by the Lost Dutchman Mining Association (LDMA)