In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in ... Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the ...

In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in ... Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues ...

In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in ... Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. The Californian Gold Rush of 1849. Many of the 'Forty niners ...

Marshall was overseeing construction of a sawmill for influential landowner John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, in what’s now California’s Coloma Valley ... partook in the Gold Rush got wealthy ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by ... John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San ...

Credit: James St. John / CC BY 2.0 James Marshall changed California’s history on Jan. 24, 1848, when he spotted shiny flecks in a creek near Coloma ... towns, filled with shops, saloons, and other ...

COLOMA – Here’s a little nugget of information about the Gold Rush that propelled California from the wilderness ... Peace meant Sutter could move ahead with plans to build a town outside his fort ...

Northeast of Sacramento, this town was praised for its proximity to the Tahoe National Forest and its historic downtown by ...

Unnamed crosses stand on the edge of plots at an old cemetery in a small, gold-rush town in central Queensland. For decades it was a mystery who these graves belonged to in the small town of ...

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 ...