Tucked away in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills lies a region where gold rush history meets modern-day adventure in the most delightful ways. Tuolumne County isn’t just another pretty slice of ...
The Gold Rush lured hundreds of thousands of people to California and changed American history. It all started with a tiny gold flake.
Thought by some to be the birthplace of Georgia's gold rush, this city has a museum devoted to this history, along with ...
Gold discovery sparked a rush that rapidly swelled California’s population and economy—and brought conflict and disruption.
It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...
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 ...
DAY THAT’S AT 10:00. THE EVENTS, BY THE WAY, ARE FREE. WELL, NOW TO OUR EXPLORER OUTDOORS. TODAY IN CALIFORNIA’S GOLD RUSH, HISTORY COMES TO LIFE WITH THIS WEEKEND IN THE SIERRA FOOTHILLS. KCRA 3’S ...
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 ...
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 ...