Background
Williams, Harold David was born on June 5, 1959 in Columbus, Georgia, United States. Son of Harold Otha and Anita (Daniels) Williams.
(In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Al...)
In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west along the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma. The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners. Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.
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Williams, Harold David was born on June 5, 1959 in Columbus, Georgia, United States. Son of Harold Otha and Anita (Daniels) Williams.
Bachelor, North Georgia College, 1980; Master of Education, North Georgia College, 1981; Master of Arts, Center Michigan U., 1983; Master of Arts, Washington College, 1984; Doctor of Philosophy, Auburn U., 1988.
Instructor, Alexander City (Alabama) Junior College, 1985-1986; instructor, Troy (Alabama) State University, 1986-1987; assistant professor, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, Georgia, 1988; assistant professor, Valdosta (Georgia) State University, 1988-1992; associate professor, Valdosta (Georgia) State College, since 1992.
(In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Al...)
Member Southern History Association, Georgia History Society, Society Civil War Historians, Georgia Association Historians, Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Teresa Crisp, August 29, 1981.