Gold rush california

A 23 year- old gold seeker arrived in San Francisco from Massachusetts in 1854. His observations and opinions of the California Gold Rush are recorded in well preserved letters.

One morning 165 years ago, James Marshall was examining his sawmill on the American River, near Coloma, Calif. Marshall was …

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Minors found more than 750,000 pounds of gold. California made 2 billion dollars from the gold rush.

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Library Exhibits :: Gold Rush. From an article about the Goldrush on the Villanova University website.

The 19th century has a way of working its way into casual conversation in Columbia, California, one of a trio of gold-rush towns—Sonora and Jamestown are the others—clustered together on the fringe of Yosemite. All three are worth exploring—whether you use one of them as a home base while you’re touring the national park or simply want to soak up living history in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode.

Between 1849 and 1882, California’s Gold Rush provided an abundance of opportunities for immigrating workers from China. Mining for gold spurred the need for cheap labor in large quantities, …