A Timeline of the History of Gold River
1848 1848 - Gold River, CA, has a rich history. Initially inhabited by the Maidu Indians, the population boomed after James Marshall discovered gold in 1848. The prospectors who came in search of riches were not disappointed. Gold amounting to millions of dollars was ...
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From Complete Listing of California Gold River Colleges -Related web pages
www.uscollegesearch.org/gold-river-california ...- Jan 1848 - In January 1848, John Sutter's work crew was in the process of building a saw mill on the American Riverin Coloma, California, a small town outside of Sacramento, when John Marshall found a handful of gold nuggets in the water. The news quickly spread ...
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From Daughter of Fortune - Related web pages
www.jiffynotes.com/a_study_guides/book_notes ... - Jan 19, 1848 - The discovery of gold by JAMES W. MARSHALL, while constructing a mill-race for a saw-mill for Capt. JOHN A. SUTTER at Coloma on the AmericanRiver, California, on January 19, 1848, set the world ablaze with excitement, and as the news was spread ...
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From Fifty Years of Masonry in California V1 - Related web pages
books.google.com/books?id=vnLUc6x2h3AC&pg=PA52 ... - Jan 24, 1848 - And then came the historic event that solved the gold shortage and changed the destinies of the Womack family, plus a billion other people. On January 24, 1848 , James Wilson Marshall spotted pure gold gleaming in the sands of Sutter's Mill , on the American River ...
From Money Mountain: The Story Of Cripple Creek Gold - Research and Read … - Related web pages
www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=99375096 - Jul 20, 1848 - 1 & 8" and "Lower Mines or Mormon Diggings No. 3" $135 These are two maps on one sheet showing the most important mines on Mason's "Positions of the Upper and Lower Gold Mines on the South Fork of the American River, California July 20th, 1848" map.
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From antique maps and charts, prints - Baldwin's Old Maps & Prints - Related web pages
www.baldwinsmaps.com/maps.htm 1849 1849 - The South Fork is where gold was discovered by Europeans in 1849, so the river is also rich in Gold Rushhistory. Not so long ago, public access along the South Fork was quite limited. The American River Conservancy and the BLM are acquiring land for ...
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From … Trail: South Fork American River | Pilot HillCalifornia Hikes | Trails.com - Related web pages
www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid ...1850 Jul 1850 - Rich Bar was discovered by members of the "Gold Lake" rush in July of 1850. Rich Bar proved to be the richest river bar in California's Gold Rush Country with more than 4 million dollars in gold taken out. Miners could often find hundreds of ounces of gold ...
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From Traveling California's Gold Rush Country - Related web pages
books.google.com/books?id=YYj5akx5i5sC&pg ...1858 1858 - This book is about the gold rush which took place in the Fraser River and vicinity in 1858, which was within the British Possession and the Washington Territory, now called British Columbia and the State of Washington. This book covers the Fraser River Gold ...
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From … .com: The Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858 As Reported by the California … - Related web pages
www.amazon.com/Fraser-River-Reported ...1897 Jul 1897 - A number of veteran gold-hunters fromCalifornia made their way thither with a few hundred dollars and came back with hundreds of thousands. InJuly, 1897, a party arrived at Seattle direct from the mouth of the Yukon, where they had been working in the ...
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From The United States of America - Related web pages
books.google.com/books?id=inUUAAAAYAAJ&pg ...1998 Mar 1998 - To further leverage the Company's leadership position, in March 1998, it acquired America's Flood Services, Inc. ("AFS"). Headquartered in Gold River,California, AFS provides flood zone determinations, flood insurance and flood compliance tracking.
