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On this day in history January 24, 2006

James Marshall, a young carpenter, spied a golden pebble in the millrace of his new saw mill. He knew what it was, even though it was about half the size of a pea. Then he saw another.... Within 10 years of the Gold Rush's beginnings, almost a million miners gouged and scraped the California... Sign in to see full entry.

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