Sutter's Mill

Sutter's Mill
2014 replica of Sutter's Mill
Location of Sutter's Mill
Location	Coloma, California
Coordinates	38°48′12.5″N 120°53′32.5″W / 38.803472°N 120.892361°W / 38.803472; -120.892361
Area	Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
Governing body	California Department of Parks and Recreation
California Historical Landmark
Official name	Gold discovery site
Designated	March 7, 1955[1]
Reference no.	530

Sutter's Mill was a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter. A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall, found gold there in 1848. This discovery set off the California gold rush (1848–1855), a major event in the history of the United States.

The mill was later reconstructed in the original design and today forms part of Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma, California. A meteorite fall in 2012 landed close to the mill; the recovered fragments were named the Sutter's Mill meteorite.