Sutter's Mill
California discovery site
Sutter's Mill is a sawmill in California where gold was discovered in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush.
The site, on the American River near present-day Sacramento, became synonymous with the rush itself.
The discovery at Sutter's Mill drew hundreds of thousands of prospectors westward.
- gold rushMass migration seeking ore
- CaliforniaWest coast megastate
- Sierra NevadaWestern U.S. mountain range
- boomtownsFast-growing frontier settlements
- mother lodePrincipal ore deposit
1848 · gold nugget · strike it rich · prospecting · Sacramento River · frontier life · mining camp · tailrace · westward expansion · boom and bust · land speculation · foothills · mining towns · sawmill · Eureka · pickaxe · staking a claim · placer
- Gold Rush Mines
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- Gold RushCalifornia Gold Rush, gold miners, gold mining, gold flakes, gold nuggets
- California historystatehood, Spanish colonization, Spanish mission, gold rush, railroad expansion
- Gold Countrygold mines, gold panning, gold nuggets, forty-niners, prospectors
- mining historyminers, gold pan, gold mining, pickaxes, silver mining