Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
Gold Country & Central Valley
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 575
- Established
- 1942
parks detail
- Hook
- Sutter's Mill at Coloma, where James Marshall's 1848 find set off the Gold Rush
- More
- Marshall's January 24, 1848 flake in the tailrace touched off the migration that made and unmade California — the working sawmill replica runs demonstrations, and you can still pan the American River here. Marshall himself died broke; his monument statue points forever at the discovery site.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 38.802, -120.893