Thar’s gold, not in them there hills, but in the sawmill water race at Sutter’s Mill. Discovered in January 1848, the word eventually spread East to start a rush of gold seekers, the 49ers. The story is memorialized in the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma, California.
Sutter and his partner Marshall died poor. They did not stake any claims.
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- The actual site of the mill which was rediscovered in 1947.
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- Reproduction of the sawmill.
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- Reproduction of the sawmill.
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- Stagecoach in the museum.
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- A brdge crossing the South Fork of the American River, just upstream from Sutter’s Mill.
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- Bridge detail.
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- Bridge detail.
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- Bridge detail.
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- Interesting tree trunk.
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- The jail is the sturdiest surviving building in Coloma.
