The
Franklin-Creighton Mine was a Georgia Gold Rush gold mine located in the town of Ball Ground in Cherokee County, Georgia. The mine was initially known as the
Franklin Mine because it was started by a widow, Mrs. Mary G. Franklin, who obtained a 40-acre (160,000 m
2) lot in the Gold Lottery of 1832. Around 1883, the mine became known as the
Creighton Mine
or the Franklin-Creighton Mine. This mine was one of the most
productive and continued to operate many years after other area mines
had ceased operations. Some estimate that it was yielding $1000 per day
in 1893 and others place its total production after 1880 at as much as
$1,000,000. The mine was shut down in 1913 as a result of a collapsed
shaft which caused the mine to flood.
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