South End · East/West Boulevard
St. Catherine Gold Mine (site)
The other end of the Rudisill lode: a 460-foot-deep gold mine consolidated with the Rudisill in 1830, quiet by 1887.
- Historical
Lost Charlotte — the building is gone
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- South End — we hold no street address or coordinates for it.
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- Sorts every list here by walk time.
The take
Per the DNCR essay for marker L-99, the St. Catherine Mine stood approximately 2,500 feet from the Rudisill on the same 2-to-6-foot gold vein, reached 460 feet deep, and had ceased operations by 1887. The two were consolidated into the Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company in 1830 under Count Vincent de Rivafinoli and later John Penman. USGS MRDS #10106087 (past producer of gold and silver; alternate names 'Charlotte' and 'Mccombs') places the site at 35.21094, -80.85925, a depression adjacent to the railroad tracks about 1.2 km from downtown, and flags the location as not exact.
Heritage context
St. Catherine Mine
Active today
St. Catherine Mine — mine, appearing in the Charlotte record across 5 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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