Sutter's Mill

American  

noun

1. the location in California, NE of Sacramento, near which gold was discovered in 1848, precipitating the gold rush of 1849.

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Etymology

Origin of Sutter's Mill

After J. Sutter, its owner

Example Sentences

In January of that year, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento, and within 12 months, more than 300,000 immigrants from across the world had poured into the region.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2025

He equated Muscatine to Sutter’s Mill, the site in California where prospectors from across the country flocked to try to find their fortune.

From Washington Times • Mar. 2, 2019

Newcastle is twenty miles from Sutter’s Mill, the sawmill where gold was discovered, in 1848, and the birthplace of the modern idea of California as a place of extraction, entrepreneurship, and transformation.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 8, 2017

When John Marshall discovered a gold flake at Sutter's Mill in Coloma in 1848, he set off the original mass migration that would transform the West into one of the world’s great civilizations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2017

When Humphrey got up to Sutter's Mill, the first man to know anything about gold-washin' that got there, he was takin' out a thousand dollars a day, easy, for a month or more.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis