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What is the river where gold was discovered in california in 1848

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The American River

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In 1848 John Sutter was having a water-powered sawmill built along the American River in Coloma, California, approximately 50 miles east of present-day Sacramento. On January 24 his carpenter, James W. Marshall, found flakes of gold in a streambed.

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