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Gold Miner's Cabin Comes to Campus
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by Marc McAfee
from 11alive.com, January 31, 2012

When a prospector built a small cabin on the site of the first gold rush in the country 180 years ago, he probably never imagined his humble home motoring through the streets of Dahlonega. But Alice Sampson did have that vision.

She's the Director of the Appalachian Studies Center at North Georgia College and State University. For three years since it was donated, she's been planning to move the small log cabin from where it sat on private property. [Full story...]

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