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California Gold Rush: Coloma to San Francisco
The California Gold Rush began at Sutter's Mill in Coloma in January 1848 and spread to Sacramento, San Francisco, Placerville and the boomtown of Columbia.
The route follows the news from a sawmill tailrace to a crowd in a San Francisco square, then to two mining towns where the rush turned into streets, aqueducts and brick buildings. Most stops can still be visited, though the Placerville pin is only the main street.
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On 24 January 1848 James W. Marshall found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill he was building for the Sacramento pioneer John Sutter. That small find set off the Gold Rush. Today the site is a state historic park. A statue of Marshall stands on a monument on the hill, pointing to the spot where he made his discovery, and the Gold Discovery Museum shows mining equipment, horse-drawn vehicles and household implements from the period.
訪問のヒント: Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, with a museum and the Marshall monument.
出典
- Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
- 該当箇所:
- Features; History
- California Gold Rush
- 該当箇所:
- History; Marshall's discovery
- Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
Four days later, on 28 January 1848, Marshall met privately with Sutter inside the fort's adobe main building and showed him the gold. Tests confirmed it, and Sutter expressed dismay: he wanted the news kept quiet. He was right to worry. His workers left in search of gold, and squatters took over his land and stole his crops and cattle. The two-story adobe is the only original structure in the reconstructed state historic park.
訪問のヒント: Sutter's Fort State Historic Park in Sacramento; the original adobe is the building to look for.
出典
- Sutter's Fort
- 該当箇所:
- History
- California Gold Rush
- 該当箇所:
- History; Marshall's discovery
- Sutter's Fort
The secret did not hold. In San Francisco the newspaper publisher and merchant Sam Brannan set up a store to sell prospecting supplies, bought pans for 20 cents and resold them for $15. On 11 May 1848 he showed his gold to a crowd at the plaza, and walked through the streets holding aloft a vial and shouting "Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" The town of about 1,000 people grew to 25,000 full-time residents by 1850. Portsmouth Square, the old Plaza de Yerba Buena, was its first public square and is a park today.
訪問のヒント: Portsmouth Square is a public park in San Francisco, with historical markers and memorials.
出典
- Sam Brannan
- 該当箇所:
- California Gold Rush
- Portsmouth Square
- 該当箇所:
- Early history
- California Gold Rush
- 該当箇所:
- History; Marshall's discovery
- Sam Brannan
Miners first called this camp Dry Diggin's, after the way they moved cartloads of dry soil to wash out gold. Later in 1849 it earned the name Hangtown, after numerous hangings. In one case, three wanted men were hanged on an oak tree on Main Street by a mob, without any trial. The town took the name Placerville in 1854, when it was incorporated. Gold Bug Park & Mine is now a museum with tours.
場所の精度: The sources place the hanging oak on Main Street without naming an exact spot; the pin marks Main Street in Placerville.
訪問のヒント: Main Street runs through the old town; Gold Bug Park & Mine in Placerville offers tours.
出典
- Placerville, California
- 該当箇所:
- History
- Placerville, California
John Walker found gold here on 27 March 1850, in one of the richest finds of the Gold Rush. Over the next years a network of water supply aqueducts, costing over $1 million, was built to support the mining. A boomtown grew, with a population between 2,000 and 5,000 in the 1850s. Today the old town is a state historic park run as an inhabited, working open-air museum, where people in period costume run a candy store and a daguerreotype studio.
訪問のヒント: Columbia State Historic Park; costumed docents lead living-history programs.
出典
- Columbia State Historic Park
- 該当箇所:
- Description; History
- Columbia State Historic Park