More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

The group of eager California "gold rushers" from Manchester who departed from Boston by ship on Feb. 2, 1849, finally arrived in San Francisco on Aug. 14, 1849. The arduous ...

The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 is one of the defining moments in California history, with roughly 300,000 forty-niners flocking here to make their fortune from the U.S. and abroad.