{"id":1465,"date":"2024-02-24T20:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/?page_id=1465"},"modified":"2024-02-24T20:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:25:47","slug":"potato-creek-johnny-nugget-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/?page_id=1465","title":{"rendered":"POTATO CREEK JOHNNY NUGGET SITE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/POTATO-CREEK-JOHNNY-NUGGET-SITE-1024x719.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/POTATO-CREEK-JOHNNY-NUGGET-SITE-1024x719.png 1024w, http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/POTATO-CREEK-JOHNNY-NUGGET-SITE-300x211.png 300w, http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/POTATO-CREEK-JOHNNY-NUGGET-SITE-768x539.png 768w, http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/POTATO-CREEK-JOHNNY-NUGGET-SITE.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPotato Creek Johnny\u201d is credited with finding one of the world\u2019s largest gold nugget. The nugget was located in Potato Creek. The gold nugget weighed 7-3\/4 troy ounces in the shape of a leg. He sold the piece to W.E. Adams for $250.00. Johnny is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery.Johnny may have found the nugget at this very spot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decimal Degrees: 44.37950, -104.01998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LINKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deadwood.com\/history\/infamous-deadwood\/potato-creek-johnny\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DEADWOOD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legendsofamerica.com\/sd-potatocreekjohnny\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LEGENDS OF AMERICA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truewestmagazine.com\/biggest-nugget-in-the-black-hills\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TRUEWESTMAGAZINE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPotato Creek Johnny\u201d is credited with finding one of the world\u2019s largest gold nugget. The nugget was located in Potato Creek. The gold nugget weighed 7-3\/4 troy ounces in the shape of a leg. He sold the piece to W.E. Adams for $250.00. Johnny is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery.Johnny may have found the nugget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1465","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1465\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackhillsbackroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}