San Francisco, California Gold Rush, San Francisco History For a thousand years, the fog rolled over an empty peninsula. Seals barked on deserted shores. Native Ohlone trails wound through sand dunes where only coyotes prowled. Then, on January 24, 1848, in a sawmill 120 miles away, James Marshall bent down and picked up a flake of gold from the American River. He didn't know it yet, but that single moment would birth the richest, most audacious city the American West had ever seen. In today's video, we look at San Francisco - 1848, The Luckiest City Of The Gold Rush (AI Reconstruction)… Keep watching to see San Francisco, California Gold Rush, San Francisco History Also check out: • A Day In London During The Bubonic Plague ... #History brougth to life #AI Reconstruction #San Francisco History