Gold Discovery Days 2015 at Marshall Gold Discovery State Park
On January 24, 1848, an event occurred which would dramatically change the history of California and the United States. James Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the tail race of the sawmill that he was building for John Sutter, on the banks of the South Fork of the American River in the Coloma valley. Each January, Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park commemorates this event with Gold Discovery Day. opular activities include a gold discovery reenactment on the banks of the American River, mill carpenter demonstrations, a Miwok Village, free wagon rides to Marshall’s Cabin, gold panning, and Gold Rush period music and entertainment. Video by Gold Pan Biscuits for Sierra Community Access Television
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Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park is a state park of California, United States, marking the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush.
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Sutter's Mill was a sawmill, owned by 19th-century pioneer John Sutter, where gold was found, setting off the California Gold Rush, a major event of the history of the United States. It was located on the bank of the South Fork American River in Coloma, California and is nowadays part of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.
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Descendants of the miners who discovered gold in California in 1848, reconstruct the methods they used.
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The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W.Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.The first to hear confirmed information of the gold rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands , and Latin America, and they were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848.All in all, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
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Delaypat's History Tour - Coloma, California and a little ghost hunting
We decided to take a trip in Lisas new car to Coloma, Ca. This is where gold was discovered in 1848, causing a boom to the area. Lots of history still stands here.
DISCLAIMER: WE DID NOT ACTUALLY GO ON THE ROCK, WE WERE STANDING IN THE DIRT NEXT TO IT, THOSE OTHER PEOPLE WERE NOT WITH US!!!
Paul Revere visits Sutter California
Testimonial from 5th grade teacher at Brittan Elementary in Sutter, California for the History Brought to Life 4th and 5th Grade Assemblies.
Joel Greene, founder of History Brought to Life, has been performing fun and educational assemblies for 4th and 5th grade students since 1998. He has a passion for United States history and has honed his presentation skills in order to create an energetic and unforgettable learning experience for students all over California.
4th Grade Assembly
- California Brought To Life
1st the students will meet a missionary who served with Father Serra and 2nd they will meet James Marshall, the founder of gold in California, to learn all about the Gold Rush. We show artifacts brought back from the missions along with miner's tools. We call up volunteers to take part in the presentation; it is very interactive. Finally, the students will get a chance to pan for their own piece of gold (iron pyrite).
5th Grade Assembly
- America Brought To Life
During this performance, our performer dresses up as Paul Revere in which he discusses the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, Son's of Liberty. We show actual silver replicate pieces that Paul Revere made while he was alive, we call up volunteers to help with demonstrations; it is very interactive.
Joel Greene, also created (and hosts) a family/children's' television show called Curiosity Quest that has been airing on PBS for the past 7 years. In each episode, Greene ventures on quests to answer the curiosities of children and adults. Visit for more information on Curiosity Quest.
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Gold, Greed and Genocide: 20 Years Later
THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, about 50 miles northeast of Sacramento. Hearing the news, approximately 300,000 people poured into California from the rest of the United States and around the world. The influx of miners reached its peak in 1849, resulting in the term “49’ers”. California gold reinvigorated the US economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to rapidly achieve statehood in 1850. The Gold Rush gave rise to the city of San Francisco which remains the major urban hub in Northern California to this day.
By the time the Gold Rush ended, California had gone from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to having one of its first two U.S. Senators, John C. Frémont, selected to be the first presidential nominee for the new Republican Party in 1856.
IMPACTS ON CALIFORNIA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
The Gold Rush had severe effects on Indigenous Peoples of California and resulted in a precipitous Native population decline from disease, genocide and starvation. Over 150,000 Indigenous Peoples lived in California prior to the Gold Rush with sustainable cultures and economies based primarily on hunting, gathering and fishing. By 1870, the Native population of California had declined to an estimated 31,000 with over 60 percent perishing from diseases introduced by the 49ers. Tribes were also systematically chased off their lands, forcibly relocated to missions and reservations, enslaved and brutally massacred. In 1851, the California State government paid $1 million for scalping expeditions. $5 was paid for a severed Indian head in Shasta in 1855 and twenty-five cents was paid for a scalp in Honey Lake in 1863.
Over 4,000 Indigenous children were sold with prices ranging from $60 for a boy to $200 for a girl. In the 19th and 20th centuries Indigenous children were also forcibly removed to government and church-run boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their languages. Many were forcibly placed in “work training programs” where they were used as slave labor in homes, farms, timber operations and other enterprises.
The legacies of these genocidal practices, including loss of land, subsistence, cultural practices, language, identity and political sovereignty, persist to this day. The good news is that work for healing, restoration and revitalization carried out by Indigenous Peoples throughout California to reverse these impacts are having notable and positive results.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH IMPACTS
During the California Gold Rush, miners dug up 12 billion tons of earth, excavating riverbeds and blasting hillsides in their fervor. They also used mercury to extract gold from the ore, releasing an estimated 7,600 tons of the toxic chemical into Northern California rivers and lakes. The amount of mercury required to violate federal health standards today would be equivalent to one gram in a small lake.
Elemental mercury is a heavy metal that persists in the environment. It transforms into highly toxic methylmercury once it is released into waterways, which then bio-accumulates in the tissues of plants, animals and humans. Methylmercury has numerous detrimental health impacts. It is a known neurotoxin that can cause serious long-term impacts on the developing brains and nervous systems of unborn and newborn babies and young children.
Mercury is a global problem. Primary sources of human exposure are eating contaminated fish, coal-fired power plants, medical and dental procedures and waste, small-scale gold mining still using mercury for ore extraction, and emissions from abandoned mines. In 2013, the United Nations completed the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which calls for countries to reduce the use and release of mercury and to clean up contaminated sites.
IITC’S “GOLD, GREED AND GENOCIDE” PROJECT: PROMOTING TRUTH IN HISTORY
In 1999, the State of California celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Gold Rush, including distributing curriculum for use in California public schools which completely omitted its impacts on the Indigenous Peoples of California. As a result, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) worked with Project Underground to develop the Award-winning 26-mintue video “Gold, Greed and Genocide: the Untold Tragedy of the California Gold Rush” for use in Jr. and Sr. High Schools, along with an accompanying study guide highlighting the historic and continuing impacts from the perspective of California Indigenous Peoples.
In 2019, IITC received support to produce an annex providing updates on two key issues addressed in the first video: the revitalization of California Native cultures and the work being done to provide information on mercury and promote clean-up. Both videos can be downloaded from IITC’s web site iitc.org. Links to other relevant resources about the California Gold Rush are also posted.
The Gold Rush Was California's Shortcut to Statehood
In 1848, pioneer John Sutter and a carpenter named James Marshall discovered gold in a local stream, prompting a major gold rush. Just a year later, California would become America's 31st state.
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California Gold Rush Explained!
Two 8th graders explaining the gold Rush of 1849. Sitck around for the bloopers at the end!
The California Gold Rush Experience: Facts, Miners, Timeline, Towns (1998)
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. About the book:
The first to hear confirmed information about gold in California were residents of Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), western Mexico, and Central America. They were the first to go there in late 1848. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came overland from the east, on the California Trail and the Gila River trail.
The gold-seekers, called forty-niners (as a reference to 1849), often faced substantial hardships on the trip. While most of the newly arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. At first, the gold nuggets could be picked up off the ground. Later, gold was recovered from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as panning. More sophisticated methods were developed and later adopted elsewhere. At its peak, technological advances reached a point where significant financing was required, increasing the proportion of gold companies to individual miners. Gold worth tens of billions of today's dollars was recovered, which led to great wealth for a few. However, many returned home with little more than what they had started with.
The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1852. Roads and other towns were built throughout California. In 1849 a state constitution was written, and a governor and legislature were chosen. California became a state as part of the Compromise of 1850.
New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service. By 1869 railroads were built across the country from California to the eastern United States. Agriculture and ranching expanded throughout the state to meet the needs of the settlers. At the beginning of the Gold Rush, there was no law regarding property rights in the goldfields and a system of staking claims was developed. The Gold Rush also resulted in attacks on Native Americans, who were forcibly removed from their lands. An estimated 100,000 California Indians died between 1848 and 1868, and some 4,500 of them were murdered. Gold mining also caused environmental harm to rivers and lakes.
Overnight California gained the international reputation as the golden state.[138] Generations of immigrants have been attracted by the California Dream. California farmers,[139] oil drillers,[140] movie makers,[141] airplane builders,[142] and dot-com entrepreneurs have each had their boom times in the decades after the Gold Rush.[143]
The literary history of the Gold Rush is reflected in the works of Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County), Bret Harte (A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready), Joaquin Miller (Life Amongst the Modocs), and many others.[29][144]
Included among the modern legacies of the California Gold Rush are the California state motto, Eureka (I have found it), Gold Rush images on the California State Seal,[145] and the state nickname, The Golden State, as well as place names, such as Placer County, Rough and Ready, Placerville (formerly named Dry Diggings and then Hangtown during rush time), Whiskeytown, Drytown, Angels Camp, Happy Camp, and Sawyers Bar. The San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, and the similarly named athletic teams of California State University, Long Beach, are named for the prospectors of the California Gold Rush.
In addition. the standard route shield of state highways in California is in the shape of a miner's spade to honor the California Gold Rush.[146][147] Today, aptly named State Route 49 travels through the Sierra Nevada foothills, connecting many Gold Rush-era towns such as Placerville, Auburn, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Coloma, Jackson, and Sonora.[148] This state highway also passes very near Columbia State Historic Park, a protected area encompassing the historic business district of the town of Columbia; the park has preserved many Gold Rush-era buildings, which are presently occupied by tourist-oriented businesses.
Famous People of the California Gold Rush
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Famous People of the California Gold Rush
John Sutter
Envisioned an agricultural empire near the American River
Wanted discovery of gold kept secret
Never did appreciate the opportunities of the Gold Rush, and left California penniless
James Marshall
Discovered gold pebbles while building Sutter’s Mill
Feared the effects of potential prospectors, who eventually forced him off his land
Also died nearly penniless
Henry Wells and William Fargo
Decided to profit from Gold Rush by providing services to miners
Created Wells, Fargo & Co. for banking, mail, and stage coach services
Generated tremendous wealth as entrepreneurs
Levi Strauss
Ran a successful dry-goods store
Patented canvas pants with riveted pockets
Now called Levis
The California Gold Rush cartoon 1849 (The Wild West)
Not many Americans lived in California, but that soon changed.
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SUTTERS MILL - COVER - Dan Fogelberg
Dan Foglebert had a hit with this song.As per Wiki Sutter's Mill was a sawmill, owned by 19th-century pioneer John Sutter, where gold was found, setting off the California Gold Rush, a major event of the history of the United States. It was located on the bank of the South Fork American River in Coloma, California and is nowadays part of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park. On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. At the time, Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter. On February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico City which transferred the American Southwest to the United States. When the news got out about the gold, people from all over the world headed for California, speeding statehood and permanently transforming the territory During the next seven years, approximately 300,000 people came to California (half by land and half by sea) to seek their fortunes from either mining for gold or sellting supplies like food, clothing, burros, lumber, picks, and shovels to the prospectors.
Henry Bigle and Azariah Smith like other workers at the mill, were veterans of the Mormon Battalion, and wrote about their experience in journals Bigler recorded the actual date when gold was discovered, January 24, 1848, in his diary. This gold find started the California Gold Rush the next year
The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill caused a large mass of migration to California. After the finding of gold California changed dramatically, going from 14,000 non-natives to an estimated 85,000 newcomers to California in just a year[7]. Many from the eastern states dropped everything they were doing to head West in hopes of becoming rich. There was significant mass immigration of fortune-seekers from many countries. Roughly 60,000 Chinese immigrants, 7,000 Mexicans, and tens of thousands from many other countries. There were roughly 81,000 newcomers in 1849 and another 91,000 in 1850[8]. Many died from turf wars over mine claims and diseases that broke in the towns as there was not very good sanitation. Small villages and towns had turned into bustling cities with all kinds of people. Towns were popping up overnight all over California starting in 1849 into the early 50's. The infrastructure for the number of people that had come was not there. These towns lacked sewerage, police, fire departments. Fires were a regular occurrence and wiped out whole towns. Many whites were not happy with the idea of all the foreigners taking their jobs. There were higher taxes for the foreigners and many hate crimes and riots towards the foreigners. These foreigners also helped shape California into more of what it is today. It created a diverse state with many different ethnic groups. The Chinese immigrants contributed to the fishing industry while the Italians contributed to the development of the Napa valley wineries. Every culture has left an impact on California.