Gold was discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutter s sawmill on the South Fork of the American River near Coloma 36 miles northeast of Sacramento on Jan 24 1848 The first published accounts of the find appeared in The Californian a San Francisco newspapers on March 15 1848
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