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In the early days of the Gold Rush, most of the area’s mine workers lived in Grass Valley while the owners, bosses and other white-collar people built their upscale Victorian homes in Nevada ...
Back in the 1800s, fortune seekers from around the world descended upon California, lured by the promise of gold buried in riverbeds and mountainsides. Today, there's a new kind of gold rush.
Many people left when gold mining dwindled in the late 1850s. Preservation of its Gold Rush remnants began over a hundred years later as the town became a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
Decades after the California Gold Rush ended in 1855, a different crop of settlers—including artists, musicians, and LGBTQ+ people —came looking for something other than precious metal.
Pier 58, which was originally called Schwabacher’s Wharf, and then Pier 7, has a past covered in grit, gold-dust, and go-getters. This spot is where the Seattle of the 21st century was born.
"Black Gold: Stories Untold," a new immersive art exhibition opening Friday at Fort Point, unearths the overlooked stories of Black Californians from the Gold Rush through Reconstruction.
With the sudden ascent of the web, thanks to Mosaic, Netscape, and Internet Explorer, new companies jumped into this high-tech gold rush. But at first, it wasn’t clear what the best business ...
That's all I'm saying. There's got to be another global currency that people want to store value in, and one of those is gold. Mary Long: I'm Mary Long, and that's Jan van Eck.