Page 16 - John Sutter News Today

The artist creates a visual epic with produce boxes and faces of fieldworkers.

African American entrepreneurs played a key role in the evolution of Sacramento’s business community

Nathaniel Colley at a speaking engagement in Seattle in 1962. Colley was Sacramento’s first Black lawyer in private practice.

The California Gold Rush sparked the largest mass migration in U.S. history.

Gold rush, rapid influx of fortune seekers to the site of newly discovered gold deposits. Major gold rushes occurred in the United States, Australia, Canada, and South Africa in the 19th century. The first major gold strike in North America occurred near Dahlonega, Georgia, in the late 1820s. It was the impetus for the Indian Removal Act (1830) and led to the Trail of Tears. The best-known strike occurred at Sutter’s Mill, near the Sacramento River in California, in 1848. On January 24 of tha...

Paul Layendecker's "WAY BACK WHEN" for Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 1848 Gold was discovered on John Sutter's Mill, by James Marshall, starting the California gold

John Sutter, in full John Augustus Sutter, original name Johann August Suter, (born February 15, 1803, Kandern, Baden [Germany]—died June 18, 1880, Washington, D.C.), German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California. Discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush. Sutter spent much of his early life in Switzerland; he was a Swiss citizen and served in the Swiss army. Fleeing from bankruptcy and financial failures and leaving his wife and children in S...

On Jan. 24, 2011, a suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport international arrival gate killed 37 people and injured more than 170 others.

California has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control. No wonder so many people are leaving.

Wagonloads of freshly harvested wheat from McFarland Ranch head to Sacramento to be ground into flour. Local farmers in the 1860s and 1870s grew thousands of acres of wheat and