COLOMA, Calif. – This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and Gold Discovery Park Association will commemorate the ...

In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged ... on in those still digging for riches in the California soil. When word of the gold first trickled 130 miles south to the port ...

Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.

California's population consisted of about ... at the sawmill Swiss immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San Francisco first, it was met with disbelief.

California's population consisted of about ... at the sawmill Swiss immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San Francisco first, it was met with disbelief.