My grandfather used to pan and dredge for gold. I went with him a lot as a kid. We lived in Coosa county but I don’t know where all we went. I know we went to Hillabee Creek at least once. And somewhere with a train track running over it. Always found gold flakes but never “struck it rich” to say. He did get enough at least to make my grandmother a golden pendant.

It’s probably been about 15-20 years since he’s went though, he’s just too old now at 88. Got too hard to load everything solo and his buddy who he teamed up with a good bit passed away.