Johannes Reith Virtual Cache
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Nice easy cool cache/
The first gold rush in the United States occurred a few years after the discovery, in 1799, of a hunk of "heavy yellow' metal in or along Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by Conrad John Reed, aged 12. Conrad was one of the three boys and five girls born to John Reed, a former Hessian soldier, who had been brought to the Colonies to help suppress the Revolution. Reed had deserted King George III's forces instead, and had made his way northward from South Carolina to what was then Mecklenburg County. He married Sarah Keiser (or Kisor) and accumulated, through time, a large farm. It was not, however, until 1802, three years after his son had found the "heavy yellow rock," that Reed learned that it was gold. The rock, described as being the size of a small smoothing iron and weighing about 17 pounds, had been used as a doorstop in the Reed home. Later a Fayetteville jeweler gave Reed $3.50 for the nugget, worth thousands. These events were to have important repercussions for Reed, his family, his county, his State, and the Nation, because they focused attention on the region and resulted in this county's first gold rush. After much discussion with the management, it was mutually decided that a regular cache wouldn’t work here. So I turned it into a virtual cache that can, and should be user interactive. This is cool cache for the whole family to do. To claim the find, you must email me the name of the object that was not original to this site.
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