California's Gold Rush history comes to life in El Dorado County at the annual Coloma Gold Rush Live event.The Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park hosts the event each fall to give ...

Step back in time to Coloma, California, the historic ghost town where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the ...

COLOMA, Calif. – This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. ... The day was first celebrated in Coloma in 1948 – 100 years after Marshall ...

About a decade before silver was discovered in Nevada, the West’s first consequential mining boom occurred on the other side ...

The gold-rush era house of worship, the Emmanuel Church, has lost its luster. Located near Sutter's Mill in Coloma, the church was built in 1855 and was California's first Episcopal church.

The park is celebrating the anniversary of the gold discovery on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 10 to 3 p.m. Visit that day or other days and walk through California’s gold rush history, reflecting ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

Gold was found near Coloma in 1848 by James W. Marshall, a white carpenter, setting off the California gold rush that saw hundreds of thousands of people from across the nation and outside of the ...

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.