jan 24, 1849 - Gold discovered in California
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A man named James W. Marshall was unexpectedly the first man to discover gold in California. Many men before his discovery assumed there was gold however nobody had ever found any. Marshall discovered the gold in a Creek near Coloma, California while overseeing construction of a sawmill on the American River.
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