Ah, but — and you should remember this for “Jeopardy!” — the Golden State’s first documented gold strike happened here, in ...

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Gold was discovered in 1848 in the American River near Coloma, about an hour away from Sacramento, igniting the Gold Rush. And even though hundreds of thousands of pounds were extracted from ...