Californian gold rush - Sutter's Mill, California (mid 1800's) - Sutter's Mill was a sawmill, owned by 19th-century pioneer John Sutter, where gold was found, setting off the California Gold Rush. On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California. At the time, Marshall was working to build a water-powered sawmill owned by John Sutter. Henry Bigler & Azariah Smith along with other mill workers were veterans of the Mormon volunteer military Battalion.

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