In 1850 a young man fishing Buffalo Brook found gold and could not keep it quiet. By 1855 the stream was called Gold Brook, a mill and crusher were running upstream at Plymouth Five Corners, and the Rooks Mining Company later claimed more than $13,000 in six months of 1884, a figure nobody ever verified. Most investors lost their money; the superintendent, Henry Fox, bought the mine when the company failed in 1889 and kept looking until he died in 1919. The gold is placer, left by the glaciers, and Camp Plymouth State Park lets you pan the brook for your own enjoyment with a hand pan only: sluices and commercial work are not allowed. Old mine workings lie upstream outside the park; stay out of them. PUBLIC, Plymouth.
Placer gold
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