Gold Rush California’s first Thanksgiving Day premiered in Sonora with “fun and jollity, but not of the most refined order,” Capt. Thomas R. Stoddart wrote in his 1861 history of Tuolumne County. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a ...

Sonora, established in 1848 by miners emigrating from Mexico’s Sonora state, soon hosted Gold Rush immigrants from all over the world. The town remains a regional gateway — it’s an hour from both ...

New Lodge to be Located at Historic Sonora Masonic Hall, One of California’s First Masonic Establishments Built During the Gold Rush Members of Sonora Lodge No. 887 and members of the community ...

At an age when most schoolkids are still learning to tie their shoelaces, Nathaniel Prebalick — AKA Gold Plate Nate — was teaching budding treasure hunters how to pan for gold. As a third-generation ...