South End · New Bern
Rudisill Gold Mine (site)
The deepest of Charlotte's uptown-edge gold mines worked a lode 350 feet down; state marker L-99 at South Boulevard and Bland Street commemorates it.
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The take
The DNCR essay for marker L-99 records that gold was discovered at the Rudisill in 1826, that the mine reached 350 feet, and that it operated sporadically after 1848 with reopenings in 1880-1887, 1905-1908, and 1935-1938. Count Vincent de Rivafinoli and later John Penman consolidated the Rudisill and St. Catherine into the Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company in 1830, bringing steam engines and stamp mills. USGS MRDS #10079128 ('Rudisil Mine', past producer of gold, silver, and copper) locates the collapsed mine stope at 35.20261, -80.86842, about 2.5 km southwest of downtown Charlotte, west of the railroad tracks.
Heritage context
Rudisill Mine
Active today
Rudisill Mine — mine, appearing in the Charlotte record across 4 documented year(s).
Sources
- Facts — dncr.nc.gov, verified August 2026
- deepCut — the guide’s own research notes — no published source, August 2026 — not independently verified
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