 This is a family coaster that is named after Dahlonega, Georgia, a village in northern Georgia that was a center of the gold rush of 1828, the first gold rush in the United States of America.When opened in 1967, the Dahlonega Mine Train had the capability to run four trains at once, the reason for its high capacity.In the mid-1990s, however, the O. D. Hopkins Company rebuilt and refurbished the ride, replacing some wooden supports with steel, retracking and a fully computerized control system.