As one might expect, San Francisco was among the territories ceded to the United States by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A gold rush started not long after the …
A pleasant countrified spot like the Mission Dolores did not remain a secret for long in Gold Rush San Francisco, particularly when the rapidly growing city was so crowded that thousands of Forty-niners slept in rooming houses by eight …
The Gold Rush had enormous, incalculable, effects on San Francisco and California, the ramifications of which are still being felt to this day, so it's very important to properly examine it and separate it from the foundational myth.
By 1855 over 150,000 persons had come to seek gold in California, swelling the new state's population, and San Francisco became a full-fledged city of over 60,000 served by nearly 2,000 dentists, physicians, and pharmacists with …
By 1855 over 150,000 persons had come to seek gold in California, swelling the new state's population, and San Francisco became a full-fledged city of over 60,000 served by nearly 2,000 dentists, physicians, and pharmacists with varying credentials.
The first thing to note is that in 1848 San Francisco had only just become San Francisco, having been renamed from Yerba Buena only the year before. Going back further, the Ohlone people, numbering around twenty thousand, occupied more or less the entire Bay area down to …
Gold was discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River near Coloma (36 miles northeast of Sacramento) on Jan. 24, 1848. The first published accounts of the find appeared in "The Californian," a San Francisco newspapers, on March 15, 1848.
As one might expect, San Francisco was among the territories ceded to the United States by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A gold rush started not long after the battle ended. James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill on January 21, 1948, which drove 300,000 people to come to California.
The largest of the Gold Rush boomtowns was San Francisco, which counted only a few hundred residents in 1846 but by 1850 had reached a population of 34,000. So quickly did the territory grow that by 1850 California was ready to enter the …
As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the...
As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area; by the end of 1849, the non-native population of the...
San Francisco: The Gold Rush's boom town. When Fremont first raised the flag of independence in California, and thus secured its possession to the United States, there was no town and only a few dwellings on the shores …
Find out about how the Gold Rush changed San Francisco. Discover some near important mining locations and ways to get San Francisco during the 1850s.
Gold was discovered in California by James Marshall at Sutter's sawmill on the South Fork of the American River near Coloma (36 miles northeast of Sacramento) on Jan. …
San Francisco: The Gold Rush's boom town. When Fremont first raised the flag of independence in California, and thus secured its possession to the United States, there was no town and only a few dwellings on the shores of the magnificent Bay of San Francisco.
A pleasant countrified spot like the Mission Dolores did not remain a secret for long in Gold Rush San Francisco, particularly when the rapidly growing city was so crowded that thousands of Forty-niners slept in rooming houses by eight-hour shifts and …
On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in Northern California. Get the facts on the rush for gold that followed.
The largest of the Gold Rush boomtowns was San Francisco, which counted only a few hundred residents in 1846 but by 1850 had reached a population of 34,000. So quickly did the territory grow that by 1850 California was ready to enter the Union as a state.
