John Sutter and James Marshall owned Sutter Mill.
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The California Gold rush of 1849.
It was the place were they found the gold and the Gold Rush's starting point (January 24, 1848).
The mining of precious metals in the west
Sutters mill was a mill owned by some dude by the name of John W. Marshall. He discovered some gold in it prior to the Gold Rush. His secret somehow spread and that is how the Californian Gold Rush began. Remember, the gold rush is what caused thousands of people into the state, and eventually the gold rush led to California becoming a state.
James Marshall found gold in the year of 1848.