Cherokee

200 years ago Spanish explorers found gold on the south side of Table Mountain. Fifty years later Welsh miners and a group of Cherokees from Oklahoma mined the area and struck it rich. A hydraulic gold mining industry developed that employed folks around the clock for almost 30 years.

The miners created a city, which, during the boom of the 1890s, boasted a population in the thousands. They found gold and diamonds and lived quite well. Thomas Edison owned one of the mines, and he made sure the area had electricity. President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife visited Cherokee, as it was that famous.  Today the town has less than 70 residents. The old mining days are gone, but the hobbyist can still find some gold and diamonds in the area.

Time has marched on, and Cherokee is just about forgotten except for a few relics from it's "rich" past.