Travice Foster cleared land
Woodson Galloway mucker
Alvin Goodwin driver
Carl Green assay work
Harry Wallace Green assay work
Llewellyn Green assay office
Willie Green assay office
Charlie Harris driller
John Harris sand bed
Bond Jackson mucker
Kermit Jackson driller and timberman
Talmadge Jackson operated tram cars
Will Jarvis hauled machinery and cleared land
Eugene Leslie timberman
Jesse Lovelady picker
Grant Lowe mucker
Ed Mahan picker
Fey Melton driller
Herschel McCllelan mucker
Buddy McGhennis electrician
Price McLeod machine shop
George McWhorter mucker
James Henry McWhorter driller
Rhett McWright drillers
Lucius Monroe driller
Howard Mooney driller
J.P. Mooney driller and explosives
Jim Nelson driver
Mr. Ogles canned concentrate
Mr. Oplin supervisor
Cecil Osborn driller
Cowboy Osborn mucker
Elbert Padgett picker
Buck Patterson timberman
Hershel Peppers carpenter
Bonnie Reed mucker
Charlie Scott timberman
Hayes Simpson electrician
Frank Smith mucker
James W. Steward mucker
Marshal Edwin Walls chemist
Bennie White machine shop
Carey White machine shop
John White blacksmith shop
Richard White machine shop
Theodore White electrician
Bill Whiting machine shop
Frank Woodruff driller
Mon Woodruff driller
Charles Worthy mucker
William Worthy mucker
Otis Yates mucker and driller
Roy Yates mucker
Rolling stores: Red Eason, Lafayette Evers, Hester Allen
Boardinghouses: Miss Daisy Simpson, Miss Eula Green, Rob Bowen, Jim
Jones and Claude Woodruff
Notes
1. Weddle, “European Exploration.”
2. Jefferson, “Query VI.”
3. Sweet, Gold in Virginia, 1–2.
4. Myers, “North Carolina.”
5. “History of Gold.”
6. “Exhibit: Haile Gold Mine.”
7. “Georgia Gold Rush.”
8. Williams, Georgia Gold Rush, 22–23.
9. Phillips, “Preliminary Report,” 97.
10. Adams, “Gold Deposits of Alabama,” 7.
11. Phillips, “Preliminary Report”; Adams, “Gold Deposits of Alabama”; Williams, Georgia Gold Rush.
12. Braund, “Continuation of the War of 1812.”
13. Jensen, “Battle of Horseshoe Bend.”
14. “People & Events: Indian Removal 1815–1858.”
15. Niles Weekly Register, “Description of the gold mines,” 369 in Dean, “Golden Harvest of the Piedmont,” 23–24.
16. Dean, “Golden Harvest of the Piedmont,” 23–24.
17. Ibid., 23.
18. Waters, “Goldville District.”
19. Tuomey, “Second Biennial Report,” 292.
20. Johnson, “Mining and Milling Methods.”
21. Phillips, “Preliminary Report.”
22. Russell, “History of Benjamin Russell.”
23. Aldrich, Hillabee Gold Mine Prospectus.
24. Russell, “Gold Mining in Alabama,” 5–14.
25. Phillips, “Preliminary Report,” 41.
26. Phillips, James D., to Sarah Ann, Tallapoosa Historical Museum, Dadeville, AL.
27. Kidd, “History of Blue Hill.”
28. Young, “Southern Gold Rush,” 391–92.
29. Brannon, “Robert Grierson,” 818.
30. Ibid., 819.
31. Robert Grierson to Benjamin Hawkins, September 23, 1813, “Letters of Benjamin Hawkins, 1797–1815,” edited by J.E. Hays, Georgia Department of Archives and History, 254.
32. Brannon, “Robert Grierson,” 818–20.
33. Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian, 39.
34. Kappler, “Treaty with the Creeks.”
35. Saunt, from Grayson, Creek Warrior for the Confederacy.
36. Saunt, “Creek Indians.”
37. Saunt, from Grayson, Creek Warrior for the Confederacy.
38. Hooper, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs.
39. Ibid.
40. Hoole, Alias Simon Suggs.
41. Soloman, “Simon Suggs.”
42. Dean, Papers of Michael Tuomey.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. “Cotton Economy in the South.”
46. Copeland, “Hooper.”
47. Reynolds, “Reluctant Rebels,” 88.
48. Spence, “Real Rhett Butler Revealed.”
49. Kuenzi, “Search for the Lost Confederate Gold.”
50. “Private Mint and Territorial Gold.”
51. Adams, “Gold Deposits of Alabama,” 8.
52. “Rogan plate.”
53. Niles Weekly Register, July 17, 1830, 320–33.
54. Adams, “Gold Deposits of Alabama,” 9, 10.
55. Vidette, circa 1888.
56. Ibid.
57. Alexander City Centennial, 1874–1974.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. Ibid.
61. Phillips, “Preliminary Report,” 41.
62. Ibid.
63. Farrow family records, courtesy of John F. Fletcher.
64. Coley, “Climax of Gold Mining in Alabama.”
65. Farrow family records, courtesy of Tallapoosee Historical Museum, 4.
66. Brewer, “Preliminary Report.”
67. Dean, “Minerals of Alabama.”
68. Adams, “Century of Gold Mining in Alabama,” 271–79; ibid., “Gold Deposits of Alabama,” 91.
69. Phillips, Geological Survey, 40–50.
70. Aldrich, “Treatment of the Gold-Ores,” 578–83.
71. Ibid., Hillabee Gold Mine Prospectus.
72. Downs, “Great Depression in Alabama.”
73. Adams, “Century of Gold Mining,” 278.
74. Coley, “Climax of Gold Mining in Alabama.”
75. Simpson and Neathery, “Alabama Gold,” 57.
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About the Author
Peggy Jackson Walls earned her bachelor of science degree in secondary education at Auburn University in Montgomery and her master of arts in liberal arts, with a minor in southern history, at the Auburn campus. She has taught at Auburn University, Benjamin Russell High School, Central Alabama Community College and the University of Phoenix online. Her article “Gold Mining at Hog Mining in the 1930s” was published by the Alabama Review in July 1984. In 1998, she interviewed and wrote the script for a two-hour documentary, Alexander City: 125 Years of Memories. She has published articles, poetry and interviews in different mediums.
Her research has been cited in Pulitzer Prize–nominated books Poor but Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites (2001) and Alabama: A History of a Deep South State (2010). She is the coauthor of Alexander City from Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series (2011) and was pu
blished in the anthology Chinaberries and Magnolia Blossoms from Solomon & George Publishers (2012).
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