At 64 pounds, the "Eureka Bar" is believed to be the biggest surviving ingot from the California Gold Rush. But what may be ...

Decades before the California Gold Rush of 1848, 12-year-old Conrad Reed discovered gold when he skipped church to go fishing ...

COLOMA, CA ‒ Ankle-deep in a stream, James W. Marshall bent over and grabbed a shiny object that caught his eye. He placed it on a rock and began striking it with another. The shiny material pounded ...

Forged in San Francisco in 1857 and lost at sea for 130 years, the huge, privately-owned 64-pound “Eureka” bar from the “Ship of Gold,” the SS Central America, is now offered through fractional owners ...

Chinese Camp, California saw some of its famed structures burn. A spate of lighting strikes this week ignited a series of wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, including one that damaged multiple ...

DATES BACK TO 178 YEARS THIS WEEK, WHEN JAMES MARSHALL FOUND FLECKS OF GOLD ALONG THE SOUTH FORK OF THE AMERICAN RIVER. JANUARY 24TH, 1848. HE'S STANDING DOWN THERE, LOOKS DOWN AT HIS FEET, AND ...

Residents and firefighters scrambled to protect a historic California Gold Rush town from an aggressive wildfire as it burned homes after being sparked by lightning. No injuries or deaths have been ...

Step back in time in Jamestown, a small historic town in Northern California known for Gold Rush architecture and vintage steam trains.