Border’s „Discover the Heritage“ – Coin 03
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
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Germany
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This coin from the Swabian Alb in SW-Germany would will be an ambassador from Germany to American people with German roots. Please bring this coin to the office of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park near Coloma, California. Take photos during the journey. After reaching the aim the coin will get a new mission.
Johann August Sutter was born in Kandern in the southern Black Forest. 1833 he lived with his wife and four children in Burgdorf, a small Swiss town. In 1834 he emigrated, without his family, to America and became a citizen. In 1841 Sutter moved to California to fulfill his lifelong dream of cultivating the land. He received a land grant of app. 47,000 acres for his New Helvetia. In 1844 he was appointed captain in the California militia and awarded an additional 96,800 acres of land. By 1848 he was the richest man in California and had earned the nickname "The Emperor of California."
His quest came to a sudden end when, early in 1848 Jim Marshall, the boss carpenter of a crew of Maidu Indians and transient Mormon settlers, who were building a sawmill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, glimpsed the metallic twinkle of gold. This resulted in profound changes in California, America, and the entire world.
The spot near Coloma, where Marshall found the gold, is today the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
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