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By Tom Bosse, July 26, 2025
Traveling the Old Copper Road Marker
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1 ► Tennessee, Polk County, Ducktown — Traveling the Old Copper Road —  |
| Gold Prospectors Find Copper It was probably a surprise to the prospectors in 1843. They were searching for a rich "mother load" of gold, but found instead massive veins of rich copper ore, near present day Ducktown. By 1850, a mine was . . . — — Map (db m279853) HM | |||
| 2 ► Tennessee, Polk County, Ducktown — The Old Copper Road — |
| You are entering the last existing segment of the Old Copper Road. Constructed between 1851 and 1853 to connect the copper mines in the Copper Basin with the railhead in Cleveland, Tennessee, this portion of the road (2.4 miles in length) has been . . . — — Map (db m279856) HM | |||