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Which region did people migrate to find gold in 1849?

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On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter originally from New Jersey, found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California

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They migrated to what now is California but in 1849 it was an Unorganized territory.

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