Thought by some to be the birthplace of Georgia's gold rush, this city has a museum devoted to this history, along with ...

The Gold Rush lured hundreds of thousands of people to California and changed American history. It all started with a tiny gold flake.

Gold discovery sparked a rush that rapidly swelled California’s population and economy—and brought conflict and disruption.

The California gold rush is one of the most iconic stories in American history. While the gold rush is taught in almost every U.S. history class in the United States, often left out is the Native ...

DATES BACK TO 178 YEARS THIS WEEK, WHEN JAMES MARSHALL FOUND FLECKS OF GOLD ALONG THE SOUTH FORK OF THE AMERICAN RIVER. JANUARY 24TH, 1848. HE'S STANDING DOWN THERE, LOOKS DOWN AT HIS FEET, AND ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a ...

In 1849, the David and Sophia Binkleman family from Germany heard about California’s Gold Rush. They made a bold and life-changing decision to sell their property and immigrate to the goldfields of ...

Walking down Placerville’s Main Street, there’s an unmistakable sense of stepping into the past. The Gold Rush-era city in the Sierra Nevada Foothills has one of the best-preserved historic downtowns ...