The Marshall House, on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places, was the boyhood home of James Wilson Marshall, who discovered gold in the Sierra Nevada's in 1848, and is now the …

But the main gold rush for Americans began in 1848 when gold was discovered by James Marshall in the American River near Coloma, California. Uncontrolled by governments or large companies, the …

George Washington Carmack is said to have started it all on August 17, 1896, when, as legend goes, he discovered gold in the cold waters of the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon.

On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

Apr 4, 2014 · First found at surface level near rivers in Asia Minor such as the Pactolus in Lydia, gold was also mined underground from 2000 BCE by the Egyptians and later by the Romans in Africa, …

The earliest known use of gold dates to around 4600 BCE at the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria, where gold artifacts were found in burial contexts. Throughout antiquity, gold was extensively used by …

Almost overnight, the port turned into a near ghost town as merchants, sailors, soldiers, and laborers rushed inland to the gold fields. It was not long before gold-seekers from all over the state, Hispanic …

Within weeks, President Polk formally declared to Congress that gold had been discovered in California. In 1861, the National Institute and its geological specimens, including this gold and the letter, entered …

The Greeks mined for gold throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East regions by 550 B.C., and both Plato and Aristotle wrote about gold and had theories about its origins.

1848: The California Gold Rush begins when gold is found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma by James W Marshall. 1870-1900: The rest of the world apart from China adopts the gold standard. 1914: Many …