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

Chinese Arrive in California in 1848 Historian Charlie Chin explains the arrival of the Chinese people to California in 1848. He talks about their experiences during the gold rush and how they ...

On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, a discovery that sparked the California gold rush.

On Jan. 24, 1848, a gold nugget was found at a sawmill being built by John Sutter near Coloma, Calif., touching off the California gold rush. In 1899, Humphrey O`Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., patented… ...

The race for Africa has become like the California gold rush of 1848 with everyone dashing in to get a piece of the action, says Robin Saunders, the American financier and managing partner of ...