Gold Mining

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Mining often has a devastating effect on local landscapes. This 1900 photo shows a water cannon blasting away a hillside at the Calhoun Gold Mine, in Lumpkin County, during the second gold rush.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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