On January 24, 1848, James Marshall, an employee/partner of Sutter's, found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of California from a sleepy outpost to a bustling center of activity.
Well I think John Marshall discovered gold near Sutter's mill.
American river
The first piece of Gold was found in January,24 1848
The Gold Rush in California began when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, a sawmill on the South Fork of the America River, near Coloma, California.
Sutter's mill in Coloma, California (near Placerville, in El Dorado county, which borders Lake Tahoe). It was owned by both John Sutter and James Marshall (who actually discovered the first flakes of gold).
Gold was discovered in 1848 in California by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill. This was the first of the Gold Rushes, though the Victorian goldrushes in Australia were the richest.
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.
The river gold was discovered in was near the Sacramento River.
Gold was discovered near where Johannesburg is today, back in 1886. This discovery led to the great Witwatersrand Gold Rush.
Gold was discovered at Ridgeway Goldmine, near Orange, NSW in November 1996.
Sacramento, California is the state capital in the west where they discovered gold in 1849.
California Gold RushGold was discovered on January 24, 1848, by James Marshall, an employee at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This and subsequent finds triggered the Gold Rush from 1848 to 1855.Previously, gold was found in Southern California at Placerita Canyon in 1842, near the historic "Oak of the Golden Dream." (California was part of Mexico until February 2, 1848.)