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"James Wilson Marshall." It was January 24th in 1848 when a quaint man innocently found a few small flakes of gold while working on building a mill for a man named John Sutter.
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"California-Mines." In 1849, 80,000 miners from across the world all rushed to California to try to get rich in 1849, and 300,000 in total.
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"Law and Order During the Gold Rush." With such a fast influx of so many people to a town that was previosly an empty wilderness, the people began to establish a government of sorts.
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"San Francisco Gold Rush." The tiny little town of San Fransisco becomes a metropolis, with the gold rush.
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"Port of San Francisco." In May of 1850 one of the biggest shipments of gold left the port of San Fransisco, at the value of $1,500,000.
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"San Francisco Gold Rush Mail Service - 1854." After 1850, the gold was pretty much picked clean of the surface, but many were still rushig to the ever-growing city of San Fransisco.
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"California Historical Landmark #81: Montgomery Landing Place in San Francisco." Gold Profits mined from California leveld out to about $45,000,000 every year, and the rush ended.
