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

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

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 ...

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 ...

Gold was found in Coloma in 1848, a discovery that set off the California gold rush. White, Asian, and free and enslaved Black people settled in the town in the years that followed.