This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era ... first celebrated in Coloma in 1948 – 100 years after Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma.

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

On Saturday, the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma will be holding a special event on Saturday to commemorate the day James Marshall discovered gold on January 24, 1848, at ...

Then, the first glinting rock was discovered in the American River at Sutter’s Mill, near Coloma (40 miles east ... and outdoor activities along with gold rush sites. Here’s how to explore.

The California gold rush began in 1848, when gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought 300,000 people from across the U.S. and abroad to California.

Sutter's Mill, California, where John Augustus Sutter struck gold, accidentally starting the gold rush. Photo by MPI/Getty ... in what’s now California’s Coloma Valley when he noticed ...

His subject was Claude Chana, a French miner en route to Sutter’s Mill in 1848 who got lucky ... plus an exhibit of Gold Rush artifacts, including a 44-pound gold leaf specimen, the largest ...

Nearly two centuries after California's initial gold rush in the mid-19th ... it was first discovered at Sutter's Mill in what has since become the city of Coloma. But California isn't the only ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24 ... immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San Francisco ...