Where did the gold rush all start?

Answer 1

James Marshall discovered gold in the American river and the word spread so everyone rode in wagons to California and tried to get as rich as they could.

However the rich rode a train and every 8 miles a new mining town popped up and they mined for gold. Many of those towns were abandoned because they moved to California to get even richer with gold to sell. The abandoned mining towns are now known as "Ghost Towns," towns without life living in the buildings.

Answer 2

As the United States expanded westward, adventurers and pioneers headed out to the new territories to explore them. In January 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, about 36 miles northeast of Sacramento, CA. The man who discovered it was James W. Marshall, a carpenter who had built the mill. It did not take long for the news to spread, and soon thousands of people descended on that region of California, hoping they too would get lucky and find gold. The "gold rush" was well under way in late 1848 and continued into 1849.

Answer 3

This One Dude was working by a river and saw something shiny in the river picked it up saw it was gold showed his buddy and they were gonna keep it a secret but someone opened there mouths and the news spread that there was gold in California.

Answer 4

The gold rush began at Sutter's Mill in Colima, CA. John Marshall discovered gold in the traces of the mill in 1848. Once the gold was discovered the rush was on. A newspaper headline stated "Eureka, Gold Found". The average pay was about 10.00 a month, but a man could make 50.00 a day if he found gold. Within months over 10,000 a day were coming into the area any way they could. Sutter lost in the gold rush. He lost his fortune , mill, and ended up a broke unhappy man. By 1850 CA became a state on Sept. 9, 1850.

Answer 5

The gold rush was started when a man named James Marshall found gold in Coloma, Calafornia, in sutters mill.