"Gold Hill Jail"

Item DSC6029. The Gold Hill Jail and English Dry Stacked Rock Wall was built circa. 1845. By that time the Gold Hill Mines had been consolidated and employed up to 3000 miners. The Gold Hill Mining District was comprised of 23 working gold mines with Main Street spanning a mile from the Rowan Cabarrus County line at Union Copper to the US Hwy 52 Corridor. Of course highway 52 wasn't built until 1922.