The Gold Rush began when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill on the American River in 1848. Word spread like wildfire, attracting thousands to California, eager to strike it rich.

B etween 1848 and 1852, San Francisco exploded from a town of just over 800 people to a port city of about 35,000 people. Among those who flocked to the city, which served as immigrants' main gateway ...

The heyday of the California Gold Rush was short-lived. "Now we hear of the complete exhaustion and abandonment of many of the diggings,” one newspaper lamented in 1851.

The discovery of gold in1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries to form a multi-ethnic society in California.

The emergence of Coloma. An estimated 300,000 people traveled to California in search of gold, beginning in 1848. By 1900, the population was almost 1.5 million. Today, it is one of the most ...

In 1849, the David and Sophia Binkleman family from Germany heard about California’s Gold Rush. They made a bold and life-changing decision to sell their property and immigrate to the goldfields of ...

Underground in Charlotte, North Carolina, there are abandoned tunnels and old gold mining shafts left over from a gold rush in the 1830s. Little is preserved of this part of the city’s history.

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