Sutter
Gold discovery landowner
Sutter is a surname, most notably associated with John Sutter, the German-born pioneer on whose California land gold was discovered in 1848, triggering the Gold Rush.
The name appears in California place names: Sutter County, Sutter Creek, Sutter's Fort.
Sutter Health is a major California healthcare system.
California seat of government
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- trading postRemote commerce station
- land grantGovernment-given real estate
outpost · colonist · settler · emigrant · frontier · homestead · expansion · territory
Sacramento
California seat of government
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- trading postRemote commerce station
land grant · outpost · colonist · settler · emigrant · frontier · homestead · expansion · territory · expedition
forty-niner
Gold rush prospector
- prospectorOne seeking valuable deposits
- discoveryAct of finding something
- nuggetSmall solid lump
panning · claim · placer · mining · boomtown · motherlode · goldfield · ore · sluice · flume
genealogy
Study of family descent
family · descent · bloodline · forebears · kin · relatives · kindred · last name · German · Swiss
Sutterprospector
One seeking valuable deposits
forty-niner · gold miner · sourdough · claim jumper · Levi Strauss
- Sutter's Mill1848 gold discovery location