Cohen Brothers Store, St. James Building (Jacksonville City Hall)

Cohen Brothers Store, St. James Building (Jacksonville City Hall)

Occupying the entire block, the St. James Building has been a Jacksonville landmark since its completion in 1912. The Cohen brothers, who commissioned the construction of the building, hired renowned Jacksonville architect ...

National Historic Landmark - James Hall Office

National Historic Landmark - James Hall Office

In this office, James Hall conducted the geological research which made him one of the country's best-known 19th-century geologists.

The expertise he showed in his 1830s survey of New York state led to other ...

James Wilson Marshall

And the Coloma Valley

James Marshall arrived in the “Collumah”, valley home of the Nisenan, on May 8, 1847 to map the site for a sawmill he was to build in partnership with John Sutter. On August 18, Marshall returned with ...

James B. McCreary Hall of Justice

James Bennett McCreary

On August 31, 1975, James Bennett McCreary, a native of Madison County, was inaugurated governor of Kentucky. While advocating peace and reconciliation, his campaign had traded on his rank of lieutenant colonel in the Confederate cavalry of John ...

Community Hall / Jamestown Justice Court

Built circa 1910 as Klein and Baum commercial building. Purchased by County of Tuolumne in 1955 by Resolution 39 of Board of Supervisors, Kerr, Dondero Millard, Nicholls and Williams, “for use as a Justice Court and other public purposes.”

Served as ...

Mary Hall and son James

Jan. 22, 1799-Aug. 18, 1832 [and] Aug. 10, 1832-Oct. 5, 1832

Wife, born in Kentucky, and son of James Hall, first Man of Letters in Illinois. State Treasurer 1827-31. President of first state historical society 1827-33. Author of first book of ...

James W. Marshall

Discoverer of Gold

“Boys I believe I have found a gold mine” so said James W. Marshall to his millworkers on January 24, 1848, after he discovered gold in the tail race of Captain John A. Sutter’s sawmill at Coloma. This ...

Cabin of James Marshall

This cabin was erected by Marshall and occupied by him from 1856 : 1870. Born in New Jersey October 8, 1810. Came to California in 1845 – Died at Kelsey, this state, August 10, 1885. The discovery of gold by ...

James Hall

Presbyterian minister, Revolutionary soldier and chaplain, educator, pioneer missionary in the Natchez country. Grave is 50 yards north.

Marker is on Turnersburg Highway (U.S. 21), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James W. Marshall

1810 - 1885

Erected by the State of California

in memory of

James W. Marshall

1810 - 1885

Whose discovery of gold

January 24, 1848

in the tailrace of Sutter’s Mill at Coloma

started the great rush of Argonauts.

Marker can be reached from Marshall Park Way (State Highway ...