Day 37 - Alabama

Day 37

Nov. 17

Tuskegee, Alabama

Dear Miss Smith,

This morning after we drove across Alabama to Cragford we went straight to the Alabama Gold Camp. Once we had parked and I got Priscilla's cowboy hat on (the one she got from Oklahoma), Susanna and I burst into the doors of the General 

General Store

store eager and excited to start panning for gold and other things because you can also find red garnets, fossils, Indian artifacts and citrine, a gold/yellow mineral also known as gold topaz. The General store has a wooden interior and its shelves are stocked with souvenirs.

Once we got settled and found our panning sight, we started panning for gold. After a while our efforts payed off. (And after a lot of hard work.) All together the gold we found weighed 1.7 ounces. We each found several very small red garnets and Susanna found a pea sized piece of citrine which was large compared to our red garnets. Oh, and Amy found the remnants of what we think is some sort of Indian pottery.

After we weighed in the gold, knowing that just one ounce of gold can be hammered out to be about 300 square feet, I sarcastically announced that now Priscilla could line the inside of her RV with gold. And at first she took me seriously! But I assured her I was only teasing.

Well, I better be going for we are pulling into the RV park in Tuskegee were we will spend the night and wake up to another adventure.

Very sincerely,

Elizabeth