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See also Category:People of the California Gold Rush. This is a list of people associated with the California Gold Rush in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855. Charles H. Bennett, present at the first discovery of gold Samuel Brannan; R. C. Chambers; Jean Baptiste Charbonneau; William D. Bradshaw; Charles Crocker; Alonzo Delano
t. e. The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [ 1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply ...
The Otago gold rush (often called the Central Otago gold rush) was a gold rush that occurred during the 1860s in Central Otago, New Zealand. This was the country's biggest gold strike, and led to a rapid influx of foreign miners to the area – many of them veterans of other hunts for the precious metal in California and Victoria, Australia.
New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the economy of the colony of New South Wales. The California Gold Rush three years prior signaled the impacts ...
Armstead C. Brown. James Stephens Brown (Mormon) John Evans Brown. Samuel Brown (Oregon politician) John Ross Browne. Joseph Goldsborough Bruff. John Neely Bryan. Peter Hardeman Burnett.
The last major gold rush in Victoria was at Berringa, south of Ballarat, in the first decade of the 20th century. Gold mining became nothing more than a hobby in Victoria for decades mainly because of the depth and cost of pumping. The First World War also drained Australia of the labour needed to work the mines.
Georgia Gold Rush. The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold Belt.
The survey of 1,007 high-net-worth respondents in the U.S. with at least $3 million in investable assets found that 45% of younger investors own physical gold as an asset, and another 45% are ...