Gold was discovered in California in 1849
The people who looked for gold where called the fourty-niners which stands for (1849)
And in the period of time when gold was in California there was so much gold that they called it the gold rush and the gold rush brought more than 100,000 people to California and the rest of the United States
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James Marshall found gold in the year of 1848.
the 1848 discovery of gold in california
It was the place were they found the gold and the Gold Rush's starting point (January 24, 1848).
California Gold RushGold was discovered on January 24, 1848, by James Marshall, an employee at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This and subsequent finds triggered the Gold Rush from 1848 to 1855.Previously, gold was found in Southern California at Placerita Canyon in 1842, near the historic "Oak of the Golden Dream." (California was part of Mexico until February 2, 1848.)
Sutter's Mill, California-