Sutter's Mill
Location of gold discovery that started the California Gold Rush in 1848 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sutter's Mill was a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter. A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall, found gold there in 1848. This discovery set off the California Gold Rush (1848–1855), a major event in the history of the United States.
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Sutter's Mill | |
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Location | Coloma, California |
Area | Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park |
Governing body | California Department of Parks and Recreation |
Official name | Gold discovery site |
Designated | March 7, 1955[1] |
Reference no. | 530 |
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The mill was later reconstructed in the original design and today forms part of Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma, California. A meteorite fall in 2012 landed close to the mill; the recovered fragments were named the Sutter's Mill meteorite.