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Coloma celebrates James Marshall’s discovery of gold with Gold Discovery Day
This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and Gold Discovery Park Association will commemorate the anniversary of James ...
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Is there still gold in California? Why the gold rush lives on 200 years later
Ed Allen, a historian at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, said that only 10% to 15% of the gold in California has been found. Terry Prebalick, a gold hunter who has been working ...
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6 Family-Friendly Gold Rush-Inspired Getaways
Today, Coloma preserves their history at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, where visitors can visit the on-site museum, learn how to pan for gold and see enactments from the mid ...
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The California Gold Rush
An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...
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Today In SCV History: March 9, 1842 –The Oak of the Golden Dream, California’s First Gold Rush Discovery
Six years before the famed California Gold Rush of 1848, another discovery of gold had already taken place in Santa Clarita’s ...