The newest addition to the America the Beautiful (ATB) coin series is North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway, a winding road connecting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The Blue Ridge Parkway silver coin is the 28th installment of the ATB collection, which has a mintage…
First American Gold Rush in North Carolina
If you guessed that America’s first gold rush occurred in California, you’d be wrong! In fact, the first gold rush in our nation happened in the state of North Carolina. It began in 1799—half a century before the more well-known California Gold Rush—around the area surrounding Charlotte, which was then dusty town called “Charlotte Town”….
