On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, a discovery that sparked the ...

Did the forty-niners find gold? Northern California's American River was the site of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848. mostly men from the east, came from Europe, China, ...

The California gold rush started in 1849 with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, part of what is now the world-famous ...