Gold Ridge, Georgia

Gold Ridge is the historical name of an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States.

The area was settled in the mid-1800s and is located between Canton and the Sixes community, home to the now-defunct Sixes Gold Mine.

[1] Gold Ridge is located in the Georgia Gold Belt, which runs southwest to northeast along the southern edge of the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

[1] Gold Ridge is located between Georgia State Route 20 (Knox Bridge Highway), Marietta Highway (former Georgia State Route 5), the Sixes community and the Etowah River / Lake Allatoona.

Gold Ridge ("Goldridge") had its own post office in the early 1900s.