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 ...

One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery. The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those ...

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 ...

Gold was found near Coloma in 1848 by James W. Marshall, a white carpenter, setting off the California gold rush that saw hundreds of thousands of people from across the nation and outside of the ...

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 ...

In the two decades following California’s Gold Rush beginnings, 80 percent of its Native American population was lost. Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold.

One of James K. Polk’s last major acts as president was also one of his most consequential: He helped set off the California Gold Rush. Polk’s deed came during his final State of the Union in ...

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.