Sutter's Mill was the watchword, gold the ambition of all. Yerba Buena and San Jose were then the chief towns of the territory, and they were abandoned by all save a few. The ships in San Francisco Bay were deserted by their crews, newspapers were suspended, and no enterprise of any importance was undertaken during the first flush of ...

Object Fell To Earth In California Two Years Ago. Researchers digging deeper into the origins of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which fell in California's Gold Country in 2012, found diamonds and ...

James Marshall's discovery of gold in the South Fork of the American River at Sutter's mill on January 24, 1848, started the great rush of Argonauts to California.. But gold had been found in 1843 near the Mission San Fernando in Southern California. Over $100,000 in gold was taken within two years, and a large part of it was shipped to the Philadelphia Mint for coining.

Researchers digging deeper into the origins of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which fell in California's Gold Country in 2012, found diamonds and other "treasures" that provide important new insight into the early days of our solar system. They report their results in thirteen papers in the November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

CUBMASTER: Sutter's Mill was a sawmill owned by 19th-century pioneer John Sutter. It was located in Coloma, California, on the bank of the south fork of the American River. Sutter's Mill is most famous for its association with the California Gold Rush. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall, an employee and partner of Sutter's, found several ...

Lopez's discovery sparked California's first gold rush, six years before the far more famous discovery of the metal at Sutter's Mill, 400 miles north. Hundreds of prospectors streamed into ...

GOLD RUSH OF 1849. On January 24, 1848 a New Jersey prospector James Marshall discovered gold on the American River in northern California, while he was working on a sawmill owned by John Sutter. When news of the discovery leaked out, there was a mass migration to California, and in subsequent years a fortune in gold was mined.Historian Malcolm J. …

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill started the California Gold Rush of 1848–49. (Illustrated by VaLoy Eaton.) Mormon Battalion members Henry W. Bigler, William J. Johnston, Azariah Smith, and James S. Brown were at Sutter's Mill when gold was discovered. Great Salt Lake, by Frederick Piercy

They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.

Sutter's Mill was a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter.A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall, found gold there in 1848.This discovery set off the California Gold Rush (1848–1855), a major event in the history of the United States.

THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. by Gen. John A. Sutter It was in the first part of January, 1848, when the gold was discovered at Coloma, where I was then building a saw-mill. The contractor and builder of this mill was James W. Marshall, from New Jersey.

Sutter's Mill was a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter. A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall, found gold there in 1848.

He knew that real gold was soft and malleable and would not shatter like fool's gold–iron pyrite or mica. Additional tests at Sutter's Mill convinced the partners that Marshall indeed had found gold. They decided to keep the discovery as secret as possible. Surprisingly, their orders to remain silent generally were followed.

A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush, which peaked in 1852. . Discovery at Sutter's Mill On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a...

Sutter asked the workers to keep the discovery secret until the mill was finished, which they agreed to do. But gold is a hard secret to keep and within days the news began to spread, and like a wild fire it soon swept across the state.

Fifty years before gold was discovered at Sutter's mill, the first gold rush in American history got underway after a 17-pound gold …

1848: California Gold Rush brings miners and diseases. Some people from the Miwok, Maidu, and Nissenan tribes help James Marshall dig a millrace at Sutter's Mill. Discovery of gold flakes in the millstream sets off the California Gold Rush. The influx of miners brings diseases that kill thousands of Native peoples.

When James Wilson Marshall found gold in the tailrace of Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848, he was not the first to come across this much sought mineral in California. As early as 1816, there were reports of gold in the Spanish province of California.

Early in 1848, employees of John Sutter paid for goods in Brannan's store with gold they had found at Sutter's Mill. Brannan went to the mill and, as a representative of the LDS Church, he received the tithes of the LDS workers at Sutter's Mill from the gold they had found in their spare time.

Old John Sutter went to the mill site Found a piece of shining gold. Well, he took it to the city Where the word, like wildfire, spread. And old John Sutter soon came to wish he'd Left that stone in the river bed. For they came like herds of locusts Every woman, child and man In their lumbering Conestogas They left their tracks upon the land.

James Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848, started the California Gold Rush. Born in 1810, Marshall followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a skilled carpenter and wheelwright. When his father died in 1834, he headed westward, spending some time in Illinois and Indiana before settling in Missouri.

Gold had been discovered in January 1848 up at Sutter's Mill by James Marshall. The United States had a small military presence in the Monterey area. In order to confirm the veracity of the numerous claims that California waterways were brimming with gold, a contingent of military men were sent up on a reconnaissance of the gold mining region ...

Steps of Knowledge. Long ago, on a river in Northern California, the owner of a mill saw something shiny in the water, and when he picked it up, saw that it was pure gold. That lucky man was John Sutter. Within nine months, over ten thousand other prospectors came to California from all over the world to pan for gold.

A Valley, 45 miles east of Sutter's fort, as a mill site because it had a river for power and stands of large ponderosa pine trees for lumber. As equal partners, Sutter would furnish the capital and Marshall would oversee the mill's construction and daily operation. In the fall of 1847, Marshall began construction of the mill with a labor force

When James Wilson Marshall found gold in the tailrace of Sutter's mill on January 24, 1848, he was not the first to come across this much sought mineral in California. As early as 1816, there were reports of gold in the Spanish province of California.

Before my departure I had a conversation with all hands: I told them that I would consider it as a great favor if they would keep this discovery secret only for six weeks, so that I could finish my large flour will at Brighton, (with four run of stones,) which had cost me already about from 24 to 25,000 dollars – the people up there promised ...

The Discovery of Gold. In 1847, all waited restlessly for the fighting to end outside California. The soldiers from New York contented themselves with garrison duty and odd jobs until word came of peace, but the Mormons were discharged in the summer of 1847, and many went to work for Johann Sutter.

James Marshall, the man who found gold in the Sacramento River on January 4, 1848 while building Sutter's mill. John Sutter hired him for carpentry in the Sacramento valley where he later owned acreage and a farm. Though he discovered the gold, he never struck it rich. Shown below: Sutters Mill, the place where James Marshall discovered gold.

Kemble, Edward. Excerpt from Reminiscences of Early San Francisco 1847–48. First published in the Sacramento Daily Union in 1873. Reprinted in A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush, 1999. Edited by Joshua Paddison. It took several months for people in San Francisco—barely one hundred miles away from Sutter's Mill—to hear of …