Question: The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina, it ssoon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia what?

Context articles: Allatoona, Georgia
North Georgia mountains
Calhoun Mine
Dahlonega Mine Train
Burton, Georgia
Georgia Gold Rush
Consolidated Mine
Carolina Gold Rush
Arthur Woody
Skagway Historic District and White Pass

Allatoona was a town located in extreme southeastern Bartow County, Georgia.
 The population is estimated to have been approximately 1,000.
 Built along Allatoona Creek, it was a gold mining area later in the first U.S. gold rush, which took place in Georgia and North Carolina.
 Reaching its height in the 1840s, the Georgia Gold Rush continued into the 1850s even while the second gold rush was occurring in California.
 (Gold was also mined in nearby Woodstock.)
The Georgia Mountains Region or North Georgia mountains or Northeast Georgia is an area that starts in the northeast corner of Georgia, United States, and spreads in a westerly direction.
 The mountains in this region are in the Blue Ridge mountain chain that ends in Georgia.
 At over 1 billion years of age, the Blue Ridge mountains are among the oldest mountains in the United States and sometimes mistaken to be the oldest mountains in the world (they are only about one third of the age of South Africa's 3.6 billion year old Barberton greenstone belt.)
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 The mountains in this region are also a part of the vast system of North American mountains known as the Appalachian Mountains that spans most of the United States longitudally along the eastern areas of the nation and terminates in Alabama.
The Calhoun Mine is perhaps the oldest and best-known mine in Lumpkin County, Georgia.
 When gold was discovered in Lumpkin County in 1828, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush in 1829, it was discovered on 239 acre owned by Robert Obar.
 After at least two intermediary sales, the land was purchased by Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, who was also the 7th Vice President of the United States.
 Calhoun started a mining company to mine the land and later allowed his son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University, to manage it.
 The ore deposit was a very rich deposit and, according to an 1856 letter from Clemson to his brother-in-law, was still producing significant quantities of gold nearly 30 years after its initial discovery on the land.
 This mine - along with the Consolidated Mine and the Loud Mine - were some of the most productive mines in the Georgia Gold Belt.
The Dahlonega Mine Train is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell, Georgia, 12 mi west of downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
 The ride has three lift hills with brief elements between each that wind through a wooded, hilly landscape.
 This is a family coaster that is named after Dahlonega, Georgia, a village in northern Georgia that was a center of the gold rush of 1828, the first gold rush in the United States of America.
The town of Burton, Georgia now lies underwater, covered by Lake Burton.
 The town was located at the confluence of Dicks Creek and the Tallulah River in Rabun County, Georgia and was established in the first half of the 19th century as a result of the Georgia Gold Rush.
 The first discovery of gold in Rabun County was just north of Burton, at the confluence of Moccasin Creek and the Tallulah River.
 The town was named after Jeremiah Burton, who owned the post office and general store there.
 The Burton Post Office was established in 1875 and discontinued in 1916.
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina.
 It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold Belt.
 By the early 1840s, gold became difficult to find.
 Many Georgia miners moved west when gold was found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848, starting the California Gold Rush.
The Consolidated Mine was a gold mine in Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States, just east of Dahlonega.
 Like most of the area around Dahlonega, the placer mining on the land on which the mine is located probably started during the Georgia Gold Rush.
 By 1880, the placer deposits were exhausted and the land was down to hard rock.
 Gold was soon discovered in a huge quartz vein system, and mined.
 "The richest acre" was mined deep into the ground, and the resulting shaft became known as the "Glory Hole.”
The Carolina Gold Rush, the first gold rush in the United States, followed the discovery of a large gold nugget in North Carolina in 1799, by a 12-year-old boy named Conrad Reed.
 He spotted the nugget while playing in Meadow Creek on his family's farm in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
 Conrad took the 17 lb gold nugget home to show his father, however gold was not commonly seen in their community and the value of the nugget was not understood.
 The nugget was used as a door stop in the family's home for several years.
 In 1802, Conrad's father, John Reed, showed the rock to a jeweler, who recognized it as gold and offered to buy it.
 Reed, still unaware of the real value of his "doorstop," sold it to the jeweler for $3.50 (approximately one week's pay for a farm laborer at that time).
Arthur Woody (April 1, 1884 - June 10, 1946) was born in Suches, Georgia.
 He was an American conservationist and humanitarian who saw his father kill the last deer in the North Georgia mountains in 1895, and is credited with bringing deer back to the North Georgia mountains.
 As a forest ranger for the United States Forest Service, he served in Georgia from 1912 to 1945 and was involved in the acquisition of land in what became the Chattahoochee National Forest.
 He also is known for putting rainbow and brown trout in streams, restoring native brook trout, restoring turkey and black bear populations and was the driving force behind Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area (established 1936), the first of its kind in Georgia and the nation.
 He built lakes, fire towers, brought roads to the area, built Woody Gap School in Suches, Georgia (1940), was instrumental in building the Appalachian Trail through Georgia, and did much to help his mountain people during the Great Depression.
The Skagway Historic District and White Pass is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing a significant portion of the area within the United States associated with the Klondike Gold Rush.
 It includes the historic portion of Skagway, Alaska, including the entire road grid of the 1897 town, as well as the entire valley on the United States side of White Pass all the way to the Canada–US border.
 This area includes surviving fragments of three historic routes used during the Gold Rush, as well as the route of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad.
 Almost 100 buildings remain from the Gold Rush period.
 Portions of the district are preserved as part of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.