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Villa Rica is known as the City of Gold where arts and culture are at the heart and soul of the community. The city boasts the first Gold Strike in Georgia and that history is captured daily at the Pine Mountain Gold Museum at Stockmar Park, the historical landmark for the city.
Villa Rica / ˌ v ɪ l ə ˈ r ɪ k ə / (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese translation: Rich Village) is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. Villa Rica is placed in the Atlanta metropolitan area .
The name Villa Rica is derived from Spanish for "rich village" and the city’s name change was done to help promote the gold in the area. Hixtown and Cheevestown combined to become the new City of Villa Rica.
Aug 31, 2023 · Although the Georgia Gold Rush ended in the 1840s, Hixtown still wanted to promote its unearthed gold. Hixtown was renamed Villa Rica in 1881. Villa Rica, which directly translates to ‘Rich City,’ does not use the direct translation of its town name but instead calls itself another name.
Lucian Lamar Knight, Georgia’s first State Historian, tells of a discovery in Carroll County near present day Villa Rica in 1826 but does not list his sources. The Villa Rica claim was not widely recognized and remained one of conjecture and folklore for over 175 years.
Nov 23, 2015 · Villa Rica was Georgia’s original village of riches, home to a small gold rush in 1826 that beat Dahlonega’s more famous dash for cash by a couple of years.
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In 1999, the graduate students of history, under the direction of Dr. Ann McCleary, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Public History at University of West Georgia, pursued a project called Villa Rica Mining Heritage Park, “The Dream of Gold.”
