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Marshall was a carpenter and became manager of the mill for Sutter. Coloma is north of Sacramento and Sutter needed someone to manage the mill for him since his main operation was at the fort in Sacramento. John Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848. He found gold flakes in the traces of the saw mill. Soon it was leaked that gold was found. Sutter tried to stop it from getting out but a San Francisco newspaper had a headline about the discovery and soon 10,000 a day were arriving in the area. Over 300,000 people came to the state in the two years after the news. CA became a state in 1850 and Sutter lost everything.

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