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t. e. The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [2] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply ...
Palmdale is part of a twin-city complex with its northern neighbor Lancaster and together they are the principal cities within the Antelope Valley region and California's High Desert. Downtown Palmdale is located at 34°34′46″N 118°07′00″W, [27] at an elevation of 2,655 feet (809 m) above sea level.
See also Category:People of the California Gold Rush. This is a list of people associated with the California Gold Rush in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855. Charles H. Bennett, present at the first discovery of gold Samuel Brannan; R. C. Chambers; Jean Baptiste Charbonneau; William D. Bradshaw; Charles Crocker; Alonzo Delano
Kelsey, California. James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who on January 24, 1848, reported the finding of gold at Coloma, California, a small settlement on the American River about 36 miles northeast of Sacramento. His discovery was the impetus for the California Gold Rush.
Within the first five years of the Gold Rush, an estimated 12 million ounces of gold were extracted from the Californian soil. Because the price of gold was fixed in dollar terms at $20.67 per ...
Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (March 2, 1819 – November 23, 1891) was an American writer, teacher and pioneer. She and her family set out for California in 1848 as part of the gold rush. Her autobiographical account of the journey was published as A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California.
The California Mother Lode is a zone from 1.5 to 6 kilometres (0.93 to 3.73 mi) wide and 190 kilometres (120 mi) long, between Georgetown on the north and Mormon Bar on the south. The Mother Lode coincides with the suture line of a terrane, the Smartville Block. [4] The zone contains hundreds of mines and prospects, including some of the best ...
The California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s transformed the United States population as gold seekers ventured out to the West Coast in search of the precious metal in the Golden State's rivers and ...