Several dozen fragments were eventually identified, with a total weight of about a kilogram. The first samples of this meteorite fall were recovered close to Sutter's Mill, so it was named the Sutter's Mill meteorite. On Apa meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, showering meteorite fragments over parts of California and Nevada.
This California Gold Rush permanently changed the territory, both through mass immigration and the economic effects of the gold. During the next seven years, approximately 300,000 people came to California (half by land and half by sea) to seek their fortunes from either mining for gold or selling supplies to the prospectors. Numerous further discoveries of gold in California were made. Many settled at the new town of Coloma, California, which sprung up close to Sutter's Mill. There were roughly 81,000 newcomers in 1849 and another 91,000 in 1850.
The population expanded from 14,000 non-natives to an estimated 85,000 newcomers in just a year. Īs news of the gold spread, settlers flocked to the new US territory of California. It is now on display in the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution. Polk in Washington DC, arriving in August 1848. The first flake found by Marshall was shipped to President James K. Sutter's claim to the US government for mineral rights was investigated by Joseph Libbey Folsom, who issued confirmation of the gold discovery in June.
Bigler recorded the date when gold was discovered, January 24, 1848, in his diary. Two workers at the mill, Henry Bigler and Azariah Smith, were veterans of the Mormon Battalion and recorded their experience in journals. This peace treaty formally transferred sovereignty over the region to the United States. On February 2, 1848, before news of the discovery had arrived, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico City. On January 24, 1848, while working on construction of the mill, Marshall found flakes of gold in the South Fork American River.
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