Coos County New Hampshire

Placer gold can be found in Indian and Perry Streams near Pittsburg, the Dead Diamond and Swift Diamond Rivers north of Errol and Clear Stream between Errol and Dixsville.

Milan

Near Milan the area lead, copper and zinc mines produced a by product of gold and silver.

Pittsburg

Pittsburg is located in the extreme northwest part of county. In this area near the headwaters of Indian Stream (includes West, Middle and East branches of Indian Stream) in all gravel bars, beds, benches and terraces you can find Placer gold.

Indian Stream

Reported By: Paul F. Cavanaugh

I have panned all branches of Indian Stream and have found color but no nuggets. I have quite a bit of history on Indian. I also have bits of information on other sites in New England. Below is an example. Several years ago I met some professors from McGill College working a dredge on the Ditton River in Canada just across the border from Pittsburh, N.H. They said the previous summer they had taken $3,000 out of Indian Stream, but that it was hard work. I know that back in the late 1900s there was a commercial operation, but it did not produce much. Unfortunately some of my research material was lost, but I can check my computer discs to see what I have. At one time I intended to write a book on gold in New England.

A group of friends and I shall be headed north in July to trout fish in Pittsburg. Maybe I will dig my gold pans out and give it another shot. After all there is a story that a St. Francis Indian named Archie Anance use to come to town and trade gold for supplies. Archie supposedly discovered gold on the Ditton but was cheated out of it. His discovery was at the time the largest strike in Canada east of the Rockies. Archie is reported to have said there is enough gold in a swamp on the Middle Branch of Indian to pay off the national debt.