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James Marshall found gold in the year of 1848.
Around 350,000 visitors visit Carding Mill Valley each year.
Marshall found gold in the traces of Sutter's mill in Coloma, Ca in 1848.
Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848, but by the time the word got back east and large numbers of fortune hunters started arriving it was 1849. These people were called "forty-niners".
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1849 is known for it, hence the 49'rs of the NFL, however 1848 was the discovery at Sutter's Mill
It was about a year between the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill and the influx of gold miners to California. Documents written by a person who found the gold are dated in 1848. The gold rush to California did not start until 1849.
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John Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848. He found gold flakes in the traces of the saw mill. Soon it was leaked that gold was found. Sutter tried to stop it from getting out but a San Francisco newspaper had a headline about the discovery and soon 10,000 a day were arriving in the area. Over 300,000 people came to the state in the two years after the news. CA became a state in 1850 and Sutter lost everything.1884
Quarry Bank Mill opened in 1784.
Gold was discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in 1848. This discovery, made by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, triggered the California Gold Rush, which began in 1849 and significantly impacted westward expansion and California's population growth.
The gold rush of 1849