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The Secret Gold Mine Beneath the Smith House
As of the year 2024, the inexplicable gold mine had secretly existed beneath the basement of the famous Smith House Restaurant in Dahlonega for almost 125 years. It is unknown today why the original owner – Capt. Frank W. Hall – did not mine all the gold in the vein,

Railroad Destination to Utter Devastation: The Horrible 1926 Rockmart Wreck
Exactly two days before Christmas of 1926, a lot of the passengers upon the northbound Ponce de Leon passenger train in northwest Georgia had happy plans for the upcoming holiday season. Little did they know, they not only would never enjoy those plans, they would never see Christmas on this

Retracing Doc Holliday’s Footsteps In the Colorado Rockies
Today, many of Holliday’s former haunts on the frontier of the Old West in the 1880s surprisingly still exist, much as they did when he yet breathed the fresh Arizona and Colorado air. Looking for a great vacation opportunity with lots of Old West history? Knowing that many of the