Not many people know this, but the Charlotte Gem and Mineral Club meet at Discovery Place every third Thursday of the month. Discovery Place is achildrens science museum located in Uptown Charlotte NC. Now, you may be asking yourselves why I might tell you about this. It is important to Charlotte's history. A mine near Charlotte was the site of one of the nation's first Gold Rushes. It happened many years before the famous California gold rush that made San Francisco into a bustling city. In fact, it happened a hundred years before that.
The gold rush has had a profound effect on the Charlotte area and Charlotte NC Real Estate. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's sports teams are all the 49ers. That stands for 1749, the year of this gold rush. There is a statue of a guy panning for gold at the main entrance of the University.
The Mint Museum of Art was actually the nation's first branch of the United States Mint where it stamped gold coins because of the abundant local supply. The bulding was moved from its original location and functions as an art museum today. In fact, it was North Carolina's first art museum.
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