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The Gold Discovery Museum features gold-rush-era exhibits including mining equipment, horse-drawn vehicles, household implements and other memorabilia. The American River Nature Center, operated by the American River Conservancy, features murals of local wildlife, hands-on exhibits, animal mounts and live small animals.
Discovery of Gold, by John A. Sutter, Hutchings' California Magazine, November 1857. Sutter describes how he wanted a sawmill near the Sacramento and how Marshall told him of the gold. Early photographs, illustrations, and textual references to Sutter's Mill; Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, via Calisphere, California Digital Library.
The Old Sacramento location remained dedicated to the history of Sacramento and the California Gold Rush, and was renamed the "Discovery Museum Gold Rush History Center." [ 1 ] In July 2008, under a directive from the City of Sacramento, the partnership between the History Center and the Science Center was dissolved.
Here’s a full list of the Sacramento-area museums participating in Free Museum Weekend: Aerospace Museum of California in McClellan Park California Agriculture Museum in Woodland
Painting of Sutter's Fort ruins, c. 1900. To build his colony, John Sutter secured a 50,000 acre land grant in the Central Valley from the Mexican governor. [8] The main building of the fort is a two-story adobe structure built between 1841 and 1843 using Indigenous forced labor.
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park: Coloma: El Dorado: Gold Country: Open air: Includes Gold Discovery Museum and Visitor Center, 20 historic buildings including mining, house, school, and store exhibits Mary Aaron Museum: Marysville: Yuba: Sacramento Valley: Historic house: Victorian-era house, exhibits of local history
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park; Monterey State Historic Park; Old Sacramento State Historic Park; Old Town San Diego State Historic Park; Olompali State Historic Park; Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park; Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park; Pío Pico State Historic Park; Point Sur State Historic Park; Railtown 1897 State ...
Gold discovery site Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park 38°48′00″N 120°53′48″W / 38.8°N 120.896667°W / 38.8; -120.896667 ( Gold discovery
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