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

Within four years of the spectacular Sutter’s Mill find, an official new moniker was in place.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2020

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

The effect all over the world of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 was electric.

From A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 by Webb, Stephen Palfrey