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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.

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