An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush ... but neither Marshall nor his employer John Sutter prospered from the find. Another employee of Sutter ...

On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in ... landowner John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, in what’s now California’s Coloma Valley ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at ... been discovered at the sawmill Swiss immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached ...

The California gold rush began in 1848, when gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought 300,000 people from across the U.S. and abroad to California.

Here, families can learn more about the impact the California Gold Rush had on John Sutter and James Marshall, and can learn about the additional historical events the fort saw in its lifetime ...

For many, growing up on the US west coast can mean learning about Sutter's mill ... "The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian.

In 1839, Swiss immigrant John Sutter built what became known as ... Marshall found the first recorded golden nugget, starting the California gold rush. By 1850, most of Sutter's workforce dropped ...