lost gold town

rebeljim52

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rebeljim52 said:
has anyone heard of a gold mineing town in upstate S.C. it is on gov land.info is hard to come by.
will post more info if i find it.i think town name was Mayacu.it shut down after 1849 gold rush.i have story on cd but have a lot of them.

If its on government land it wouldn't do you any good to find it.
 

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There once was a 'town' called Meyers Mill in Barnwell County, South Carolina. In 1951, the land was acquired by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as part of a site for the Savannah River Plant. The town does not exist today--nor was it the site of a gold mine--to my knowledge--but the tie-in with the government now owning the land is what prompted this response.

What surprises me is the fact that before gold was discovered in California in 1848, South Carolina was the nation's largest gold-mining state.
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