[Answer] Where was America's first major gold rush?

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...1. California 2. North Carolina 3. Wyoming 4. South Dakota

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North Carolina - While many headed west in the mid-19th century in search of gold, the first gold rush occurred about 50 years earlier in North Carolina. It was then that 12-year-old Conrad Reed discovered the first nugget while fishing at Little Meadow Creek in 1799. The “nugget” was more than a nugget; it was a seventeen-pounder, likely the boy’s biggest catch ever in the creek located on the family’s property. Those in neighboring counties also mined for gold, and the region was soon overrun with gold diggers. One of them was the designer of the U.S. Capitol, William Thornton, who began the North Carolina Gold Mine Company, after buying up 35,000 acres in Montgomery County.:

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