Sunday, February 5, 2017

Goree, Carrie (Miss) - 1874

The Demopolis News tells of a negro plowman, while plowing on the plantation of Miss Carrie Goree, of Hale county, finding an iron chest containing $90,000 in gold and silver bars.  That big a haul ought to stimulate all the negroes to plowing.

~ Birmingham Iron Age, 17-Nov-1874, Page 3, Column 5

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