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PROUDLY PRESENTS Our California Gold Country Community EXPLORE FURTHER Becoming California, stories from California Gold Rush History Deer Creek School is located in Nevada City, California. Our community is nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains at 2,500 feet elevation. Our rural area is known for its beautiful environment and rich California gold rush history. Discover how the historical landmarks of our area weave a tapestry of gold rush h ...

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The California Gold Rush In January of 1848, James Marshall had a work crew camped on the American River at Coloma near Sacramento. The crew was building a saw mill for John Sutter. On the cold, clear morning of January 24, Marshall found a few tiny gold nuggets. Thus began one of the largest human migrations in history as a half-million people from around the world descended upon California in search of instant wealth. The first printed notice of the discovery was in the March 15 issue o ...

The History of Dutch Flat: A Sketch by Russell Towle. Once the largest town in Placer County, Dutch Flat is now a peaceful village, with Victorian houses nestled amidst the tall pines. It has a richly brocaded history, only faintly suggested by the rugged old stone store on Main street, or the tall spire o f its Methodist church. In fact, the deeds done in Dutch Flat in days gone by were highly significant to the development of the United States generally, and California in particular: for it ...

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The California Gold Rush Band The California Gold Rush Band always brings some new music to Danville. In the past, the band brought along a special arrangement of ``My Old Kentucky Home'' that was performed by The Advocate Brass Band. On another occasion, the band presented a specially commissioned march, ``The Kentucky Gold Rush.'' This year, the band will perform the 20th century Kentucky premiere of an 1830s piece called ``Maysville March.'' The piece has been lost for 150 years. Stephen ...

PORCUPINE The year of 1898 was one of many gold rushes-not just the Klondike. On October 10, 1898, S.W. Mix and his friends, Fenley and Wiley, were prospecting about two miles upstream on Porcupine Creek, an 8 mile tributary of the Klehini River, 34 miles from the townsite of Haines. Mix saw and picked up some gold dust and nuggets from a slate shelf projecting above the water line. As he later reported to The Alaska Mining Record, Juneau, December 28, 1898: "...I told (Fenley) I would show him ...

Welcome to my California Gold Rush web page California Sutter's mill picture from "California Gold Rush" web site California Gold Rush The Gold Rush was mainly taken place in California, but the gold was also found elsewhere. The gold was first discovered, it was on the land owned by John Sutter on January 24, 1848. Sutter was a Swiss by birth and immigrated to California in 1839. When he got to California he built a trading post, which is where Sacramento is today. On January 21, 1848 one o ...

The California Gold Rush of 1849 Important People John A. Sutter Effect of the Gold Rush The Event and Process

Fine art photographs of the California Mother Lode and Northern Mines with historical nuggets on the California Gold Rush. Featured Image Swerer’s Store, Tuttletown Gallery For your enjoyment we recommend that you begin with the Gallery section. Letters A first person historical perspective of the California gold rush can be found in the Letters section. Events Columbia Diggin’s 1852 - Columbia, June 1 - 4. Book Store History and travel titles about the Gold Rush and the West.Im ...

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Persons with an Interest in California Gold Rush History to: Take the Gold Rush tour to find out what life was really like for the California Gold Rush Miners. Read the Miner's Ten Commandments from The Placerville Herald, dated June 4, 1853. Read this pair of articles in Hutchings' California Magazine to learn about the tools used in the Gold Rush era. You will need the freely-available Adobe Acrobat Reader Utility to be installed on your system to download to read these articles. Once ...

Women in the Gold Rush, Women, Gold Rush, California Gold Rush, California, History, JoAnn Levy Women in the Gold Rush Welcome to the Home Page of the women who "saw the elephant" -- the women of the California Gold Rush. Woman at Auburn Ravine. Photo courtesy California State Library This page is sponsored by award-winning author and recognized authority on women in the gold rush, JoAnn Levy, whose book, They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush, was praised by ...