Guess the Mint!
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Glick, are you in that pic?
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<< <i>Glick, are you in that pic? >>
Yes it is a selfie. I am peering out the window at bottom right. I bounced the image off a mirror on a nearby tree.
Not Charlotte, BTW.
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<< <i>Dahlonega, in her later incarnation as university >>
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<< <i>Neat. What year is this pic, +/-? >>
1877 or 78.
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Oddly enough there was a government status report on the building in it's later years that a chimney was defective. I don't know if it was the same chimney, but a fire that started in one of them is what destroyed the building.
A fire destroyed the first Charlotte mint too. In that case a burglar broke in to steal bullion and torched the place to cover his tracks. No, the idea of torching a building to cover a crime is not new. The building was destroyed and the mint was out of commission for about a year. (It was circa was 1843.) The mint was rebuilt, but the second time around there was only one story above the basement, not two. The smaller workspace did not seem to effect the operations of the facility.
<< <i>Is that the confederate army? >>
No it was probably forerunner of the ROTC program. As MGLICKER said this picture was taken circa 1877.
After the mint building burned a new structure was built on the old foundations. Here is a view of that building today and the marker near the foundation.
<< <i>The is the Dahlonega Mint no more than a year so before it burned. That is only actual picture that is known of the Dahlonega Mint.
Oddly enough there was a government status report on the building in it's later years that a chimney was defective. I don't know if it was the same chimney, but a fire that started in one of them is what destroyed the building.
A fire destroyed the first Charlotte mint too. In that case a burglar broke in to steal bullion and torched the place to cover his tracks. No, the idea of torching a building to cover a crime is not new. The building was destroyed and the mint was out of commission for about a year. (It was circa was 1843.) The mint was rebuilt, but the second time around there was only one story above the basement, not two. The smaller workspace did not seem to effect the operations of the facility. >>
Nice summary. I could be wrong but I thought the Charlotte fire was in late 44 hence the gap in production in 1845 and the scarcity of the 1844 and 1846 dated coins.
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<< <i>The is the Dahlonega Mint no more than a year so before it burned. That is only actual picture that is known of the Dahlonega Mint.
Oddly enough there was a government status report on the building in it's later years that a chimney was defective. I don't know if it was the same chimney, but a fire that started in one of them is what destroyed the building.
A fire destroyed the first Charlotte mint too. In that case a burglar broke in to steal bullion and torched the place to cover his tracks. No, the idea of torching a building to cover a crime is not new. The building was destroyed and the mint was out of commission for about a year. (It was circa was 1843.) The mint was rebuilt, but the second time around there was only one story above the basement, not two. The smaller workspace did not seem to effect the operations of the facility. >>
Nice summary. I could be wrong but I thought the Charlotte fire was in late 44 hence the gap in production in 1845 and the scarcity of the 1844 and 1846 dated coins. >>
You probably right about the date of the Charlotte fire. They tell you not to memorize dates, and that's one I only recall with "It happened about ..., certainty.
It looks like the road was built up in front. I see a retaining wall.
Pretty steep front yard after that.
What's with the deep swale and how about those poor few that had to stand in it?
The biggest tree is a little funky too.
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<< <i>This photograph generated a lot of excitement when it was "discovered" in 1997. I drove all the way to Dahlonega to see it in person and subsequently wrote a two-part article for Coin World, announcing the find. >>
Can you give us a brief history of the photo? That would be really interesting. Maybe even in it's own thread?
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<< <i>That white like disc in the upper right sky-UFO?
Good one.
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