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Many people in California figured gold was there, but it was James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848, who saw something shiny in Sutter Creek near Coloma, California. He had discovered gold unexpectedly while overseeing construction of a sawmill on the American River.
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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.
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On December 5, 1848, President James K. Polk confirmed in his State of the Union address that large quantities of gold had been discovered in California.
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Sutter's Mill sells lots near the river to prospectors.
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The Oregon was from the Pacific Mail Steamship Co and it carried passengers and the first mail to California
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For purposes of protection and efficiency, traders and emigrants of the trans-Mississippi West before 1880 customarily gathered their wagons into more or less organized caravans or trains. William L. Sublette, a partner in the reorganized Rocky Mountain Fur Company, conducted a ten-wagon, mule-drawn train over the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, Missouri, as far as the company's Wind River rendezvous (in present-day Wyoming) between 10 April and 16 July 1830.
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Gold flakes are discovered on J street in Sacramento but the town is destroyed by a 10 day flood.
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Miners have to pay $20 a month for a gold mining licence fee.
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Due to the gold rush, California has enough money to become a state! So without the gold rush, California would become part of the Spanish. Also on this same date, California was declared a slave-free state!
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It played a huge impact on populations in California and the surrounding areas. It was the discovery of gold by James Marshall in Coloma in 1848 that started the whole thing.The Gold Rush, and the increase in population density, directly led to California's admittance into the nation as a free state.
