Turns out Sutter’s Fort was established in the 1840s as California’s first non-indigenous agricultural and trade settlement when Swiss immigrant John Sutter got a land grant from the Mexican ...

John Sutter had laid claim to land on the American River in Coloma in the Sierra foothills. James Marshall, a carpenter, was building a mill there for Sutter when he discovered gold in 1848.

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.

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 ...

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.

Flecks of gold rested untouched on the bottom of cold mountain streams northeast of Sacramento, California for millennia. But, once James Marshall and John Sutter of Sutter’s Mill fame, verified ...

The transaction closed effective as of December 1, 2021. Sutter’s Mill, with trailing twelve-month non-PPE revenue of approximately $24.5 million dollars, is a branded merchandise company that ...

The fireball that streaked through the skies on April 22 and exploded with the equivalent of four kilotons of TNT and fell around Sutter’s Mill, birthplace of the California Gold Rush.