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The California Gold Rush Gold was found in California in 1848 Gold was found by James Marshall, working at a sawmill in California in January 1848 – just nine days before California changed hands from Mexico to the USA. News leaked out and people went crazy! Soon there were tens of thousands of fortune-seekers coming to California – they ...

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