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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JPD3, post: 5397344, member: 116216&quot;]The first authenticated discovery of gold in America was in 1799 at the farm of John Reed in Cabarrus Co., N.C. Miners in North Carolina supplied almost all of the gold sent to the United States Mint in Philadelphia up until 1828. The early residents of Charlotte were determined to attract the first branch office of the United States Mint. Gold mines in the area included the Barringer mine and others in the Gold Hill Mining District. After a lengthy period of courting federal officials, construction of a branch United States mint began in 1835 and was completed in 1837 on West Trade Street in Charlotte. Also, On January 7, 1839, the first silver mine in the United States opened at Silver Hill, near Lexington in Davidson County, N.C.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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