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Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall first discovered gold in California, at Sutter's Mill in 1848, leading to the California gold rush.
While some people still live in the area, Coloma is considered something of a ghost town, as civic buildings such as the jail have been abandoned and left to decay, and other buildings from its boom era (1847-1852) have been converted into museums and other historical displays.
Coloma is on the South Fork of the American River that runs through the valley.
The town with some history--no, the starting point of a history of El Dorado county, and of the total revolution in the history of the whole State, throwing her out of the lethargy and quietness of hundreds of years in a feverish excitement that kept her enchained for bout twenty-five years.
The alarm was given out, and Coloma became the motto of the day, Coloma the longing of millions, and Coloma the endpoint of the trarvel* of thousands, whose starting points had been most every where on this globe.
Coloma is located on the South Fork of the American river, in an altitude of 900 feet above the level of the sea, on the upper end of the Coloma basin, which is surrounded by hills from 800 to 1,000 feet higher up.
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