Posted By:	Sheila Collins
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	Subject:	Re: John Gray, J.W. Gray and the Gray Mining and Land Development Co.
	Post Date:	January 27, 2008 at 03:47:14
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/nc/davie/messages/342.html
	Forum:	Davie County, NC Genealogy Forum
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I found this note recorded in (North Carolina and its Resources. State Board of Agriculture, xv, 413 p., ill., Winston, M. I. & J. C. Stewart, Public Printers and Binders, 1896, Call number C917 N87a (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [electronic copy_http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/state/state.html#p73]) "In Davie county are the Butler, Callahan Mountain, Isaac Allen and other mines of minor importance." I wasn't searching for anything remotely related to gold mining and stumbled onto the above electronic copy. Are you familiar with Issac Allen? The only Allen farm that I am aware of is off of Hwy 64 near the Center VFD. This mining would probably have occurred between 1860 and 1900.