{"id":4452,"date":"2024-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2024-10-04T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:26:00","slug":"lorenzo-dow-digs-for-gold-in-dahlonega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/?p=4452","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Dow Digs for Gold in Dahlonega"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/georgiagold2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4455\" style=\"width:691px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/georgiagold2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/georgiagold2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/georgiagold2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/georgiagold2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/georgiagold2.png 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 1848. Dahlonega, Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was born in Vermont.  I came into this Southern country twenty-four years ago as a clock-peddler, where I drove a good business. I used to spend my summers among the mountains of the Cherokee country, partly to avoid the fever,  and partly with a view of living over again the days of my boyhood, which were spent among the Green Mountains. I made some money, and when the gold fever commenced I took it and went to speculating in gold lots, though I spent many years without finding lots of gold! I associated with bear hunters, and explored every corner and stream of this great mountain land, away to the north, and have seen more glorious scenery than any other live man. I&#8217;m forty years old, unmarried, love good liquor, and go in for having fun. &#8216;Bout four years ago, it came into my thinking mug that there must be plenty of gold in the bed of Coosa Creek which runs into Coosa River. I traded for a lot and went to work. I found a deposit, gave up work, and went to leasing small sections, which are now worked by a good many men, and give me a decent living. I have had all sorts of luck in my day\u2014good luck and bad luck. When I&#8217;m prosperous I always hope to be more prosperous still, and when I have bad luck, I always wish for worse luck if it&#8217;ll only come. I never allow myself to be disappointed. The longer I live the more anxious am I to do some good to my fellow men. I&#8217;ve passed the blossom of my life, and I don&#8217;t expect to live many years longer. I haven&#8217;t lived as I ought to have lived, but I hope it&#8217;ll be well with me when I come to take my final sleep. But enough. I&#8217;m going out to my mine on a visit tomorrow, and if you&#8217;ll go with me, I&#8217;ll show you some real Vermont trout, and mountain peaks which would shame the camel hump of old Yankee land.&#8221;<br>\/s\/Lorenzo Dow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Lorenzo Dow of Dahlonega, Georgia in Letters from the Alleghany Mountains by Charles Lanman (1849).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/everyfamily-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/everyfamily-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/everyfamily-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/everyfamily-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/everyfamily.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/6mosubscription.html\">https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/6mosubscription.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1848. Dahlonega, Georgia. &#8220;I was born in Vermont. I came into this Southern country twenty-four years ago as a clock-peddler, where I drove a good business. 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