COLOMA, Calif. – This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic ... with the blacksmith on-site Games and activities for children ...

In 1849, people flocked to California in search of gold. These gold hunters were called the 49ers, which also inspired the ...

The Gooch-Monroe family came to Coloma as slaves in 1849 and ... the original site of Sutter Mill and the site of the Marshall's gold discovery. A short trek up a hill from the mill, visitors ...

DAY THAT’S AT 10:00. THE EVENTS, BY THE WAY, ARE FREE. WELL, NOW TO OUR EXPLORER OUTDOORS. TODAY IN CALIFORNIA’S GOLD RUSH, HISTORY COMES TO LIFE WITH THIS WEEKEND IN THE SIERRA FOOTHILLS.

IN COLOMA, A RIBBON CUTTING WAS HELD FOR THE MORMON WORKERS CABIN YESTERDAY AT MARSHALL GOLD DISCOVERY STATE HISTORIC PARK. YOU CAN SEE THAT CANNON BLAST CUT THE CEREMONIAL RIBBON. IT ALSO KICKED ...

When James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma in 1848 ... About 30 miles south of the Marshall Gold Discovery Site, in the community of Sutter Creek, is the Lincoln Mine ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's ... Swiss immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San Francisco first ...