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Back to category: History Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Gold Rush The Gold Rush was a big event in U.S history. James Marshall was the first to discover gold in Coloma, California. Many people thought Columbus was the first to discover gold. That was not true. By 1847 a settler named John Sutter decided to add a tannery and other buildings to his fort in northern California. For that he was going to need plenty of lumber. A skilled thirty-five-year-old carpenter from New Jersey named James Marshall, had agreed with Sutter to supervise the construction of a sawmill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Along the American River, which provide waterpower. Both men chose the location of Coloma. Marshall’s direction were for the workers to began building the mill. In January 23,1848, the sawmill was nearly done. There was a problem with the tailrace that Marshall discovered, in the long ditch that had been dug below the wheel of the mill. The problem was that... Posted by: Margaret Rowden Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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