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

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 ...

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

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, ... Neither side knew about the discovery when they signed a treaty giving the U.S. control of California nine days later on Feb. 2, 1848. ...

In the two decades following California’s Gold Rush beginnings, 80 percent of its Native American population was lost. Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold.

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, ... Neither side knew about the discovery when they signed a treaty giving the U.S. control of California nine days later on Feb. 2, 1848. ...

(FOX40.COM) — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants descended upon Northern California during the height of the 1848 Gold Rush, and among them were thousands of Jewish pioneers.

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 ...

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 the U.S ...

On Tuesday, a rare $20 double eagle gold coin sold for $1.44 million, about 70,000 times its initial value.The coin was one of many items dating back to days of California Gold Rush and ...