The event will be held at Marshall Gold Discovery SHP on Saturday, January 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 300 Back Street in Coloma. There is a $10 fee per vehicle which includes parking.

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

On Jan. 24, 1848, Marshall spotted flecks of gold in the new mill’s tailrace. Despite efforts to keep the discovery quiet, news leaked out and ignited the largest mass migration in history as ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

That find came in 1848, when carpenter James Marshall spotted flecks of gold in a diversion channel adjacent to the sawmill he was building in Coloma, northeast of Sacramento.

O n Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in Coloma, Calif. “Boys, by god, I believe I’ve found a gold mine,” he’s said to have exclaimed.

Aptly nicknamed "the Golden State," California saw its first gold rush some 175 years ago when James Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, noticed some glinting metal in the water where he was ...