Stockmar Home - Pine Mountain Gold Mine - VIlla Rica, GA
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YoSam.
N 33° 45.168 W 084° 53.175
16S E 695780 N 3736754
Bought the mine, built the home (1920)...closed mine(1936) ..ran a Dude Ranch, then fire got the home (1970)
Waymark Code: WM10YWW
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/14/2019
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County of ruins: Douglas County
Location of ruins: Stockmar Rd., Stockmar Park, Pine Mountain Gold Mine, Villa Rica
Home built: 1920
Destroyed by fire
The Stockmar's stone home, at the front of the property, was destroyed by a fire in the 1970's. This is what the man, pointed out as the most knowledgeable of all the worker s here, told me.
"The noncontributing building and sites on the western side of the property were built between 1920
and 1969 and include the ruins of the Stockmar family house ...
" ... In 1914, A. H. Stockmar purchased the Pine Mountain Gold Mine and
implemented the exact cyanide leaching process used by Alrich. ...Stockmar House ruins—Noncontributing site ...
" ... In 1914, A. H. Stockmar purchased the Pine Mountain Gold Mine from
Stone's surviving estate. One year later, he began commercially mining the site using a cyanide
leaching process developed and implemented by Hog Mountain, Alabama, mine-operator T. H. Alrich. Stockmar transferred ownership of the property to his son, Buddy Stockmar, who
oversaw mining operations on the property for the next 21 years.
" ... In 1936, the Stockmar family permanently
ceased their mining operations on the property. During the 1940s the family briefly manufactured "Tblocks" (T-shaped cinder blocks) from mining tailings—a by-product of gold mining involving the use
of cyanide—that were found in great abundance throughout the property. This
business soon ended due to high labor costs and superior competition from state cinder block manufacturers." ~ NRHP Nomination Form