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Find many exciting high wilderness adventures opportunities for sports and recreation including rock climbing, mountaineering, boating, camping, hiking, weekend retreats and more. <h2>Gold Rush Museums</h2> <p><img src="../globul1a.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><font size=4 color=blue> <a href="../mountshasta/yreka.htm#ygold">Siskiyou County Courthouse</a> - Yreka CA</font> <br>Largest gold display south of Alaska on display in foyer. <h2>Gold Rush Mine Tours</h2> <p><img src="../globul1a.gif" align=left><font size=4 color=blue> <a href="../amador/jackson.htm#kgm">Kennedy Gold Mine Tours</a> - Jackson CA</font> <br>The Kennedy Mine, famous for being one of the deepest gold mines in the world (at 5912 feet), demonstrates how gold changed an entire way of life in California. On the Kennedy Gold Mine surface tour, visitors see the mine office building where gold flakes were melted into large bricks to ship by Wells Fargo to San Francisco. <p><img src="../globul1a.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><font size=4 color=blue> <a href="goldrush.htm">California Gold Rush Museums</a></font> <br>Remembering the 49er Miners and subsequent gold rush history: <br><b><img src="../star.gif"><a href="http://www.amador-city.com/amador_museum/" TARGET=_BLANK>Amador Whitney Museum</a></b> - <a href="../amador/index.htm">Amador CA</a> - History of Women Miners and the Mother Lode <p><center><!-- CHI BANN P05SL --> <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2717099-10445120" target="_top"> <img src="http://www.tqlkg.com/image-2717099-10445120" width="468" height="60" alt="" border="0"/></a></center> <h2>Gold Rush Chronology</h2> <UL> <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>John Sutter Arrives</U></b> - 1839: Swiss Imigrant receives 50,000 acre land grant in Sacramento Valley. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Bear Flag Revolt</U></b> -1846-June: Followed afterwards by the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Mormon Battalion Arrival</U></b> - 1847-Jan: Arrives in San Diego from Iowa. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Gold Find at Sutters Mill</U></b> - 1848-Jan-24: John Marshall and a crew building a sawmill at Coloma (about 50 miles up the American River from Sutters Fort) discovers gold tracings in the mill tailrace. Sutter, fearing abandonment by his workers) tries to keep discovery a secret but word eventually leaks out. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Gold Find at Mormon Island</U></b> - 1848-Mar-11: Mormon workers building a flour mill a few miles downstream from the sawmill discover gold deposits in the area. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>First Newspaper Report</U></b> - 1848-Mar-15: Published in the <i>Californian</i> in San Francisco. The paper later shuts down by May 28 when most of its readers have left town for the hills. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Sam Brannan's Shout</U></b> - 1848-May-12: This storekeeper and publsher of <i>The California Star</I> buys up all available mining equipment to sell at a steep premium before loudly proclaiming the discovery of gold on the streets of San Francisco. Makes $36,000 in nine weeks. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Gold Find at Feather River</U></b> - 1848-Jul-4: John Bidwell discovers an enormous amount of gold at Bidwell Bar on the Feather River, the biggest strke in history. He uses funds to purchase much land in California. He later becomes a US Congressman and Presidential Candidate. His mansion in Chico, CA is a historic state park. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>California Hears of End of Mexican War</U></b> - 1848-Aug: <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>First Near York Newspaper story</U></b> -1848-Aug-19: <i>New York Herald</I> <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>First ship of prospectors leaves East Coast</U></b> - 1848-Nov: <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Pres Polk's Speech on Gold</U></b> - 1848-Dec-5: Boldly declares California Gold discovery in speech to Congress. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>First 49'er Wagon Trains Departs</U></b> -1849-April: After waiting for the Sierra Nevada mountain passes to become snow free, the first wagon trains rush out of Iowa and Missouri. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>San Francisco Fire</U></b> - 1849-Dec-24: Most of city destroyed. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>California Statehood</U></b> - 1850-Sep-9: <br><img src="../star.gif"><a href="../mountshasta/yreka.htm">Yreka Gold Rush</a></b> - 1851: - Abraham Thompson's mules pulled up gold flecks with the roots of the grass they were eatingtriggering the Yreka Gold Rush. <br><img src="../star.gif"><u><b>Hydraulic Mining Starts</U></b> - 1853: <center><p><!-- INFOHUB - SOCAL GOLF/SPA BANNER LD2USD --> <A href="http://www.myaffiliateprogram.com/u/infohub/b.asp?id=1434&img=banners/468x60/6.jpg&p=scripts/HTML_cgi/affiliate/index.php?af_type=1&cus_id=6&sub=FLS"> <img src="http://www.infohub.com/images/banners/468x60/6.jpg" border=0></a></center> <!-- 5X : Restaurant Coupons : 15%SL PLUS --> <p><img src="../globul1a.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><font size=4 color=blue> <a href="http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2717099-5674454" target="_top">California Restaurant Gift Certificates</a></font> <br><font color=red>MainTour Online Super Saver Special!</font> <br>Local participating restaurants feature $25 gift certificates for only $10. 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