53 pgs. b&w illus. 1999 revised. Upper elementary, middle school.

Conrad Reed found a large shiny rock in Little Meadow Creek on his family's farm. Thus begins this delightful children's story of the first American gold rush which took place two hundred years ago in North Carolina's piedmont region. It chronicles the Reed family history, the founding of the Reed Mining Company, and the mining operations which continued for 50 years in the area. The author follows up with a chronology of events at the mine from these early days through the recent bicentennial.

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