COLOMA, Calif. – This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and Gold Discovery Park Association will commemorate the ...
On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James Wilson Marshall discovered gold ... A relative few who partook in the Gold Rush got wealthy—mostly earlier prospectors.
On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made ... the sun's rays: small gold nuggets. “It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall later would say.
Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.
One of the hidden areas to escape the city lies at The American River, spanning 30 miles through the heart of California's gold rush country ... Resort to either James Marshall Park or Henningsen ...