Rock Creek Gold Rush
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rock-creek-gold-rush-312-12964031
title:
Rock Creek Gold Rush
text:
The Rock Creek Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Boundary Country region of the Colony of British Columbia. The rush was touched off in 1859 when two US soldiers were driven across the border to escape pursuing Indians and chanced on gold only three miles into British territory, on the banks of the Kettle River where it is met by Rock Creek, and both streams turn east to where in times since developed the city of Grand Forks. The first claim was filed by an Adam Beam in 1860, and the rush was on,
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1859, Colony of British Columbia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Creek_Gold_Rush
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2024-04-21T15:18:18Z
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