of those under age 18 and 13.8% of those age 65 or over. Education Lumpkin County School District The Lumpkin County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. The district has 215 full-time teachers and over 3,511 students. Lumpkin County Elementary School Long Branch Elementary School Blackburn Elementary School Lumpkin County Middle School Lumpkin County High School Higher education Dahlonega is home to University of North Georgia (formerly named North Georgia College and State University), North Georgia College and North Georgia Agricultural College, the Senior Military College of Georgia and the second oldest public university in the State of Georgia. The University of North Georgia is one of six senior military colleges (along with the Public Campuses of Texas A&M University, the Citadel, the Virginia Military Institute and Virginia Tech, and the Private Campus of Norwich University). The campus' administration building, Price Memorial Hall, is topped with a spire covered with gold leaf from the town. The rotunda dome of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta is also covered with Dahlonega gold. Other educational facilities Wahsega 4-H Center, an environmental education center and summer camp owned by the University of Georgia and administered through the UGA Cooperative Extension Service Georgia 4-H program Camp Glisson, a year-round retreat camp owned by the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church Residents Sara Christian, NASCAR's first female driver Steve Gooch, Georgia state senator and majority whip Dallas Kinney, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Guy A. J. LaBoa, lieutenant general in the United States Army who commanded the 4th Infantry Division and First United States Army In popular culture There is a Dahlonega Mine Train roller coaster at Six Flags over Georgia. Corey Smith has a song titled "Dahlonega", in reference to the town and its landmarks, on his album While the Gettin' Is Good, released on June 23, 2015. Country music recording artist Ashley McBryde directly references the town in her debut single "A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega", which was released in October 2017. International relations Twin towns – sister cities Dahlonega is twinned with: Myślenice, Poland References Further reading "Gold-Mining in Georgia." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 59, Issue 352 (September 1879): 517–519. Available here I Remember Dahlonega: Memories of Growing Up in Lumpkin County, by Anne Dismukes Amerson (Chestatee Publishing: 1993) Williams, David, "'Such Excitement You Never Saw': Gold