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James Marshall
James Wilson Marshall was the man that discovered gold in California on Jan.24, 1848.
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.
John Marshall found the first nuggets of gold at Sutter's Mill where he worked. The gold was in the traces and he took the gold to Sutter who kept it a secret. Sutter knew that once the news was out he would see a rush to California and it would cost him everything. Several months went by before in 1848 the news was spread far and wide by a news headline in San Francisco and the rush to CA was on. Sutter was right in his instincts on what would happen and he did loose his land, his fort, and his money, but in 1850 CA became a state due to the influx of people looking for gold.
James Marshall and a group of men went to Sutter's Fort to help John Augustus Sutter fix his mill, Sutter's Mill, when Marshall found a lump of something that looks like gold. After a few more tests, it was indeed gold! Soon, people caught "gold fever". The gold rush started in 1849.
James Marshall found gold in the year of 1848.
Gold was discovered at Sutter's and Marshall's Mill in California in 1848. It eventually caused a gold rush that caused thousands of prospectors there beginning in 1849.
1848
Marshall found gold in the traces of Sutter's mill in Coloma, Ca in 1848.
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James W. Marshall
James W. Marshall is the man who discovered gold in 1848. The date was January 24th and it turned out to be the beginning of the California Gold Rush.
James Marshall
James Wilson Marshall was the man that discovered gold in California on Jan.24, 1848.
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Gold was found by John Marshall at Sutter's sawmill in Columa, CA.
On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold on the property of Johann A. Sutter near Coloma, California. A builder, Marshall was overseeing construction of a sawmill on the American River. ... The Gold Rush began in earnest only after President James Polk endorsed the discovery in December 1848