No it started above Sacramento.John Sutter , a German born Swiss pioneer, got a Mexican land grant in 1839 for the area that is Sacramento today. To get the land grant he had to become a Mexican citizen and began his empire of 48,827 acres that he was given. In 1840 he started building his fort and employed 350 Native Americans to guard the fort. He also hired John Bidwell to help with management. There were large herds of cattle and horses in the fields around the fort. Hunters were sent to hunt for fur pelts and Elk hides. A distillery, flour mill, and bakery were built as well as a blacksmith shop and carpenter shop. A boat carried passengers and freight between the fort and San Francisco Bay. In 1841 Sutter bought Russian settlements of Ross and Bodega for 32,000 secured by a mortgage on the fort. He established Hock Farm on the Feather River a few miles from the modern Yuba City. The farm supplied food for the fort and he recruited immigrants from the United States, Switzerland, and Germany. By 1844 the fort was pretty much done and it grew in importance as more people arrived from the difficult trip west. The fort also sat on one of the most strategic locations in Northern California and became a goal for parties crossing the Sierras. In 1847 John Marshall was hired to build a sawmill on the American River about 50 miles from the fort. The sawmill was almost done when Marshall discovered gold. The end result was the discovery of gold hurt Sutter and workmen quit working to look for gold, thousands arrived to dig up his land, crops, and take his livestock. To keep from loosing everything he deeded his property to his son who designed the present day Sacramento.
The four major cities in the Gold Rush Era were Sacramento, Modesto, San Francisco and Stockton. The Gold Rush Era lasted 1848 to 1855.
Gold miners could be called prospectors. Some prospectors who sought their fortunes during the California gold rush were called 49ers. (That gold rush began in 1848, but was really roaring in 1849, hence the nickname for those prospectors.)
Because of the 1849 Gold Rush in California.
Everybody rushed to the west at this time in hopes of finding gold during the Gold Rush. The cities most people flocked to were Denver, Sacramento and San Francisco.
The cariboo gold rush happened because someone found gold and everyone wanted to have gold. it was Shayla Dumbridge who first discovered the gold in 1858. the first place that gold was found was in horsefly. tha actual rush did not start until the year of 1862
The Year before The gold rush of 1849 when every person in the states wanted to go to San Fransisco for gold and fame
A large migration and immigration movement to the San Fransisco area in hopes of finding gold.
The gold rush!
Sam Brannan ran down streets of San Fransisco with a bottle of gold dust shouting, 'Gold, Gold, Gold down at the American river.'
Gold was discovered in America's west in 1848, causing the Gold Rush from 1848 to 1855. That is why San Fransisco, CA's football team is called the 49ers.
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The "Forty Niners" were a group of gold prospectors who lived in northern California during the Gold Rush. In present time, the 49ers is an NFL team located in San Fransisco.
San Francisco Gold Rush was created in 1979.
They stuck it rich in San Fransisco, California
She was a firefighter so she wore firefighting clothes and sometimes after a night she dressed in mans clothes and sometimes danced with her husband in the streets of San Fransisco.
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