Coloma, California

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/coloma-california

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How many people live in Coloma, California?521 residents
2. Who discovered Coloma, California?January 24, 1848, at Sutter's Mill
3. How high is Coloma, California?764 feet (233 meters) above sea level
4. What is the key figure?James W. Marshall, credited with the gold discovery
5. What is the historical designation?Designated a National Historic Landmark District on July 4, 1961

Nisenan: The indigenous Californian people of the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada foothills.
Sutter's Mill: The sawmill where James W. Marshall discovered gold, initiating the Gold Rush.
California Gold Rush: A period of mass migration and gold prospecting in California from 1848 to approximately 1855.
Forty-niners: Individuals who participated in the California Gold Rush, arriving primarily in 1849.