Alabama gold: a history of the south's last mother lode

✍ Scribed by Walls, Peggy Jackson

• Book ID: 100681631
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.; Published by the History Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Alabama,Alabama., Alabama--Cleburne County., Alabama--Tallapoosa County., Cleburne County (Ala.), Ta
• ISBN: 1467135984

✦ Synopsis

Alabama fever -- Tallapoosa County's gold mining districts: Devil's Backbone, Eagle Creek, Goldville and Hog Mountain -- It's good to be shifty in a new country -- Cotton boom and bust, lost Confederate gold, new interests in gold mining -- Tallapoosa County: "Gold Country" -- Hillabee Gold Mining Company, 1890-1916 -- The Hog Mountain Mining and Milling Company, 1933-1937 -- Life in a gold mining community -- Notable people and events -- From the mine to the mill: J.P. Mooney -- Appendix: An incomplete list of Hog Mountain gold miners.

✦ Subjects

Alabama -- Tallapoosa County