WHOTDILCH 24 January

What Happened On This Day In LDS Church History? On this day in LDS Church History in 1848, returning Mormon Battalion member, Latter day Saint Henry Bigler,  writes in his journal about James Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on the South Fork of the American River in California, kicking off the California Gold Rush.





      Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California

Links to Further Study
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter's_Mill

https://www.lds.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times-student-manual/chapter-twenty--six-pioneers-to-the-west?lang=eng

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Marshall