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In the Valley of the Cul-lum-mah Indians, James W. Marshall discovered gold on January 24, 1848, in the tailrace of Sutter’s sawmill. The Old Coloma Road, opened in 1847 from Sutter’s Fort to Coloma, carried Marshall’s news of the discovery to Captain John A. Sutter. During the Goldrush, thousands of miners used it traveling to and from the diggings, and in 1849 it became the route of California’s first stage-line, established by James E. Birch.
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