Today, his son, Nick Prebalick owns and operates a tour company called California Gold Panning that allows tourists to try their luck at mining for gold. The business helps supplement the families ...

March 31, 1870 George Gleason, a miner, and his partners applied for a patent on a gold lode in Soledad Canyon near Acton, Ca ...

Most of the male population of San Francisco had gone to the mines. The rest of California soon followed. That summer, men like Antonio Franco Coronel, of Los Angeles, dug for gold along side ...

California’s fifth busiest port is 72 nautical miles from the ocean. It’s the Port of Stockton, 16 miles as the crow flies ...