Standard Mine (Singleton Mine; Dahlonega Mine; Boston Mine), Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia, USAi

Regional Level Types
Standard Mine (Singleton Mine; Dahlonega Mine; Boston Mine)	Mine
Dahlonega	Town
Lumpkin County	County
Georgia	State
USA	Country

The Singleton mining property, as it is at present constituted, consists of nearly all of lot 1,084, and about half, each, of 1,051 and 1,085. The original Singleton lot was 1,084; while 1,051 was known as the Moore lot. The principal mining has been done on the Singleton hill, in two open cuts, which, though now running, one into the other, are divided by the north and south lot-line, between 1,051 and 1,084. So far as I have been able to learn, the first mining done on lot 1,084 was between 1840 and 1850, by Dr. Joseph J. Singleton, the first Superintendent of the branch mint at Dahlonega. It is said, that some prospect work had been done, before; but Dr. Singleton's work consisted, at first, of mining the veins, by tunnels and incline-shafts from the top of the hill. He, also, did some work, on the ridge, northeast of the hill, on what seems to be a continuation of the veins, running through the Singleton hill. Later on, Dr. Singleton started the open cut, on the northeast end of the hill. The mill, erected by him, was a wooden 12-stamp mill, run by an undershot wheel, with water from a dam across Yahoola creek. This mill stood between the northeast end of the hill and the ridge opposite. Dr. Singleton died in 1852; and work, for the time being, ceased on that end of the hill and on the ridge opposite. At the time he was working the mine, Col. R. H. Moore and Mr. John Cannon were working the same veins, on the other end of the hill, on lot 1,051, using the same mining methods, as were used by Dr. Singleton. Their mill was a wooden 4-stamp mill, which stood down at the creek, just opposite the open cut, in the southwest end of the hill. Nothing more than "gouging" was done on this property, from the time it was worked by Messrs. Moore and Kennon, until 1860. The Moore and Kennon cut was, for a short time, after this, called the Boston mine; and Mr. Walter B. Smith, who owned an undivided two-thirds of the lot, was its Manager. A new wooden 8-stamp mill was put up, in place of the old Moore and Kennon mill; but operations were soon stopped, by the beginning of the war, in 1861. Nothing of any consequence had been done on the Singleton end of the hill, until 1866, when Mr. John Huff did some prospecting for Mr. William A. Ives, President of The Dahlonega Mining Co., who had become the owners of the property.