CONCORD
Cabarrus County Seat North Carolina
Concord incorporated in 1806
Concord is the second-largest city in the Charlotte metropolitan area and is the 10th most populous city in North Carolina. Concord is 20 miles northeast of Uptown Charlotte.
Concord is the home to some of North Carolina’s top tourist destinations, including NASCAR’s Charlotte Motor Speedway and Concord Mills.
The first substantiated gold find in America took place in Cabarrus County in 1799, when Conrad Reed discovered gold in Little Meadow Creek. The Reed Gold Mine (now a National Historic Landmark) was founded, and resulted in a gold rush to the area in the early 1800s.
In 1799, Conrad Reed, the son of farmer and former Hessian soldier John Reed (né Johannes Reidt) born June 6, 1757, found a 17-pound yellow “rock” in Little Meadow Creek on the family farm in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
For three years, the rock served as a bulky doorstop. In 1802, a jeweler from Fayetteville identified the rock as a large gold nugget. He told John Reed to name his price. Reed, not understanding the true value of gold, asked for what he thought was the hefty price of $3.50, or a week’s worth of wages.
The large nugget’s true value was around $3,600. About 1803, John Reed organized a small gold mining operation. Soon afterward an enslaved African American named Peter found a 28-pound nugget.
Reed continued with placer mining for a number of years. In 1831 he began underground mining. John Reed died at age 88 on May 28, 1845, rich from the gold found on his property.
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