Marshall was overseeing construction of a sawmill for influential landowner John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, in what’s now California’s Coloma Valley when he noticed something shiny at the ...

The news brought thousands of prospectors to the area, but neither Marshall nor his employer John Sutter prospered from the find. Another employee of Sutter, John Bidwell, made his own strike ...

John Sutter is Vice President of Field of Dreams Operations, and says there has been a lot of interest. “Both from the community and across the country, with national media picking this up ...

Neither side knew that gold had recently been discovered at the sawmill Swiss immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San Francisco first, it was met with disbelief.

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 ...

The unquenchable demand for gold spurred a mass migration and fueled the genocide of Native communities Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Sutter's Mill, California, where John Augustus Sutter ...