Gold mines in and near Coweta County • On the Dennis farm, Smokey Road near Holbrook Road. • Wilson Bowers’ farm, Bexton Road near Highway 54. • Mine near Whitesburg, known only from oral history. • Several mines near Grantville in Meriwether County. Operated from the 1840s to the 1910s.
Photo courtesy ED JACKSON
Top: This bucolic scene along Gold Mine Road near Grantville today is in sharp contrast to the activity there during the days of the gold mines. Bottom: The first gold found in the Grantville area was in creeks and led to gold panning, like this, before the mining began.
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