August 6, 2017

Our travels yesterday took us back toward North Georgia around the Dahlonega area.  First stop was Auroria, just south of Dahlonega,  You have heard of the the 1849 California gold rush.  Did you know that there was a gold rush 17 years earlier?  In Northeast Georgia around Dahlonega and Auroria.  That is why Dahlonega is called the Gold City.

The first two pictures are building from that era; a general store and a s building that I think was a bank at that time, based on Wikipedia.  There area is over grown, but I here tell that there are other foundations there.

We stopped in Dahlonega for a late lunch at Linda's favorite eatery on the square.  Every Saturday, there is a Music Jamboree on the square, where local came an assemble in group to play, mosly mountain music.  Here are two of them.

The next two pictures are north of Dahlonega on Route 16, where Route 60 goes to the left toward Suches.  We went past this last week and I have traveled this road often, all the shile noticeing this pile of stones in the little triangle at the intersection.  The Historical Marker tells the story.  Yes, I did bring a stone from home and placed it on the others.

The last picture is of the lower fall and DeSoto Falls further north from the grave of Thahlyta.  The are two falls at the DeSoto Falls Recreation Area.  Our GPS has us go where the falls were not...  If there is a lower falls, there must be an upper falls.  The lower falls is a 1/4 mile trek, which we decided to do first.  The upper falls is a 3/4 mile trail.  Our thought was to take the easy one first.  It turns out to be steep.  We did not go to the upper falls due to my torn meniscus and Linda's plantar fasciitis.  But not to be deterred, we will return to see the upper falls.