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On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall told his millworkers, “Boys I believe I have found a gold mine,” after discovering gold in the tail race of Captain John A. Sutter’s sawmill at Coloma. The discovery started the great Gold Rush to California, which resulted in its admission to the Union as the thirty first state on September 9, 1850.
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