Dust off those cobwebs and dig back to your 8th grade history to the 1849 Great California Gold Rush. Do you remember where it started? Nothing? Nuggets of gold had been discovered at Sutter's Mill ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) -- A statue commemorating one of California's most prominent historical figures has been removed from outside a Sacramento hospital. The statue of John Sutter at Sutter Medical ...

Before gold was discovered at his mill in Coloma, Sacramento pioneer John Sutter aimed to create a farming empire in the Sacramento Valley. In 1848 he amassed thousands of sheep, cows, horses and ...

Gold nugget. 1848. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. This small piece of yellow metal is believed to be the first piece of gold discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California, ...