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The California gold rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2 ]
Elizabethtown, California was a California Gold Rush town that began in 1852 in Plumas County, California. It was named after a woman in the miners camp called Elizabeth Stark Blakesley. [2] It is said that the value of gold taken from the Elizabethtown area ran into the millions of dollars.
Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall found gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills, at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848, [4] leading to the California gold rush. Coloma's population is 529. The settlement is a tourist attraction known for its ghost town and the centerpiece of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.
During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.
The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, [5] and in 1962 the state legislature authorized creation of Bodie State Historic Park. A total of 170 buildings remained. [35] Bodie has been named as California's official state gold rush ghost town. [37]
The town was established in approximately 1857 by Carl Norst as a placer mining camp. [4] By 1859, a group of Mormons had arrived as miners at the site and a mining camp arose. [3] Dog Town became the site of the first gold rush to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. Prospectors rushed here after hearing rumors of gold being washed out near ...
A Gold Rush was on in California. ... Within the first five years of the Gold Rush, an estimated 12 million ounces of gold were extracted from the Californian soil. Because the price of gold was ...
Gold was first discovered in this town in 1850. The area under the town was so rich in gold that they moved the town to get to the gold. [3] Marysville was a transportation hub for gold to be shipped out to San Francisco. Millions of dollars in gold came through Marysville, one of the biggest cities in California at the time. [11]