Friday, April 20th - Gold Country

We drove about 30 miles south of Auburn to Coloma, CA, the site of the first discovery of gold that led to the California Gold Rush of 1849. James Marshall was working at his saw mill on the South Fork of the American River and was redirecting a flume for discarding water and discovered gold nuggets in the river. Once word got out, people from (literally) all over the world flocked to this part of California, coming overland, around Cape Horn or across the Pacific to the port of San Francisco.

This s a photo of MA sitting in a field of Lupines above the American River.