SACRAMENTO — State park leaders have voted to make changes at one of Sacramento's oldest and most historic sites—and it may even get a new name. Up to 120,000 people visit Sutter's Fort each year.

This is the little glint of real gold, what the boys called "color," that James Marshall noticed in the tailrace at John Sutter's mill on the American River. We all know the story, or think we do.

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Take a step back in time to the days before gold was discovered in California with a visit to Sutter's Fort. In 1839, Swiss immigrant John Sutter built what became known as Sutter’s Fort ...

Sutter's Mill, California, where John Augustus Sutter struck gold, accidentally starting the gold rush. Photo by MPI/Getty Images On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James ...

Read more: John Sutter, the Swiss slave-owner California ... This discussion led to the landowner leaving his fort (and the colony) for Sutter’s Mill, which he also owned. The fort building ...

Sutter hired him to build a sawmill there, and sold him land for a ranch on a tributary of the Sacramento River. In 1846, Marshall volunteered to fight with John C. Frémont’s California ...

Up to 120,000 people visit Sutter's Fort each year. There's a lot of history inside the walls. "It still remains one of the pre-eminent cultural institutions in the city," said John Fraser ...