WAIT WAIT WAIT.

I'm sorry that I like to refer to the California gold rush as THE gold rush.

Go back to playing the spoons.

 

You asked for it. This is all in good humor you know.

The First Gold Rush in the United States

The first gold rush in the United States occurred a few years after the discovery, in 1799, of a hunk of "heavy yellow' metal in or along Little Meadow Creek (153k) in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by Conrad John Reed, aged 12. Conrad was one of the three boys and five girls born to John Reed, a former Hessian soldier who had been brought to the Colonies to help suppress the Revolution. Reed had deserted King George III's forces instead, and had made his way northward from South Carolina to what was then Mecklenburg County. Here he married Sarah Keiser (or Kisor) and accumulated through time a large farm. It was not, however, until 1802, three years after his son had found the "heavy yellow rock," that Reed learned that it was gold. The rock, described as being the size of a small smoothing iron and weighing about 17 pounds, had been used as a doorstop in the Reed home. Later a Fayetteville jeweler gave Reed $3.50 for the nugget, worth thousands. These events were to have important repercussions for Reed, his family, his county, his State, and the Nation, because they focused attention on the region and resulted in this county's first gold rush.

 

Of course.

Reed was an idiot.
And I see nothing in there about the 49ers.

 

Wait, what?

 

I forgot to capitalize "the" in "the gold rush".

THE gold rush.

Fuck you.

 

You need to visit another board if you're gonna solicit sex.

 

........:headslap

 

Look at the location

Besides just having gold discovered in the area Charlotte in on Highway 49. Did anyone hear Frank Garcia on Primetime with the Packman talking about how he wished Charlotte had a football team?

 

That's just a Nostradamus coincidence.

 

To me the '49er' name has always been a combination of the Highway 49 thing and the gold rush thing.