In Memory Of All Native Californians

Beautiful as it is to stand in front of San Francisco’s beauties, it would be ignorance not to learn about its past. This story is about the Gold Rush, a big part of the history of California. It all started in 1848 when James W. Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma. The news about his discovery was so big that from 1848 to 1849, about 100.000 people from all over the world settled in California in search of riches. These are the so-called Forty Niners, named after the year 1849. Afterward, everything changed. San Francisco had only 200 residents in 1846 and by 1852 it was a town of approximately 36000 people. More and more people started arriving in California and by 1855 the total amount of gold-seekers who moved there was close to 300.000. Due to how many forty-niners traveled through the sea, San Francisco’s port became packed with abandoned ships. There were so many of them that their materials were repurposed to make homes and public buildings. <a href="https://medium.com/@vickyalmonds/in-memory-of-all-native-californians-47c1c7cb08eb">Click Here</a>