Reed's Gold Mine Pictures
North Carolina Attractions
We had heard about Reed's Gold Mine from a friend of ours.
He had visited several years ago and raved about how cool it is.
Since we were driving from Helen Georgia to Virginia Beach, we decided to stop at Reed's Gold Mine to check it out.
The problem was, by the time we arrived at Reed's Gold Mine, we had an hour before they closed.
So we didn't have much time to see everything, or even try our luck at goldpanning.
Here's is a picture of the entrance sign to Reed Gold Mine, and the building below has a museum and gift shop.
All over the property is mining equipment, mostly from the 1920's.
When we walked in, she said, Do you want to goldpan or take the tour? So we chose the tour.
The tour had already left, and we ran to catch up with them. When we found the rest of the tour they were already in the mine.
I spent the next hour taking as many pictures as possible.
Pictures of Reed's Gold Mine Property
- The drive towards the parking area... Reed
driveway
- Mining equipment is used to make the property informational...
mining equipment
- A huge display of more modern mining equipment... modern
mining
- A side view of the Reed Gold Mine Museum... side
view
- A display of mining equipment near the parking area... mining
display
- To catch up with the tour we had to go thru this tunnel... tunnel
- On the other side of the tunnel was more displays... antique
sluice
- A picture of some other kind of mining equipment... display
- Most had information signs, but I didn't have time to read them... more
equipment
- The property is full of paths you can hike... hiking
path
- The creek where John Reed found his gold nugget... gold
nugget creek
- Gold Street, the way to the goldpanning area... Gold
Street
- A closer picture of the entrance sign, hours they are open...
hours open
Pictures taken inside the Gold Mine
- After we entered the mine, the temperature dropped to a cool 65 degrees...the
mine tunnel
- A wheelbarrel in the mine shaft... antique
wheelbarrel
- Finally catching up with the tourguide and tourists... catching
up
- A huge pot behind a wooden ladder... huge
pot
- A shaft in the goldmine... goldmine
shaft
- A vein of quartz...vein
of quartz
- Some other kind of mining contraption... gold
mining tools
- A view into another goldmine shaft... goldmine
shaft
- A picture of the small areas in which the miners crawled... miner's
shaft
- Exiting the goldmine... tunnel
exit
- A picture of where one of the shafts go to above ground... Morgan
Shaft
- An informational sign about the history of Upper Hill... Upper
Hill 239k
Pictures taken Inside the Museum
So we had 15 minutes left to view the museum, and I just took a bunch of pictures because I couldn't read fast enough. I'm going to leave the pictures as large as I can so you can read them too.
- Apron Table used to coat gold with mercury... Apron
Table
- Goldmining in the 20th century... informational
display
- Equipment that looks like it's used to crush rock... rock
crushing equipment
- Plaster model of the 1896 last gold nugget found ...
gold nugget
- Information on the last gold nugget found in 1896 by Jacob L Shinn ... information
display 267k
- Information display comparing first underground mining with last underground mining... display 367k
- Information about the 9 1/2 lb nugget George Reed found as a boy...
George Reed 267k
- History of John Reed... informational
display
- Newman's Gold Hill... informational
display
- More pictures of Gold Hill North Carolina... Gold
Hill
- Why they stopped gold mining in North Carolina... informational
display 365k
- Gold Mining and the Civil War... informational
display 265k
- Gold extracting processes after the war... informational
display 225k
Map of Reed Gold Mine Location... map
We headed back to the parking lot, and a parking assistant was waiting for us. He said he had to lock the gate.So we left and pulled into a picnic area across the street from Reed Gold Mine's entrance and snacked on some Georgia peaches.
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