Where is the Golden Nugget located?
Lambertville, home of the Golden Nugget, has seen relatively little change over the past one hundred years. A small town with a rich history, Lambertville was once the midpoint on the two-way journey between Philadelphia and New York City and used as a outpost and crossing point for General George Washington.
Who was the man who discovered gold along the American River?
It’s named for James W. Marshall from Lambertville, the man who set the whole world heading westward with his discovery of gold along the American River in northern California. In July of 1845, Marshall arrived at the Sacramento River Settlement run by John Sutter. Sutter gave him employment as a carpenter, a trade that Marshall was originally ...
When did Marshall see gold?
On January 24, 1848, while checking to see that the tailrace of the mill had been flushed clean of silt and debris, Marshall looked down through the clear water and saw gold. And the rest, as they say, is history.
