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One of the unique aspects of Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park is that many of the rooms, like the blacksmith shop, are areas where we can demonstrate historical skills and also their impacts on 1840s California history. The blacksmith was one of the first jobs at Sutter's Fort and the blacksmith shop was operating through the early days of the Gold Rush. Iron stock was pretty hard to come by in early California so blacksmiths often repurposed iron goods or broken tools. Marco, one of our blacks

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The spring semester has started and it has many of the staff, who are also college students, thinking about going to campus on a more regular basis again. Going to class sometimes impacts what is on our minds when it comes to interpreting some of the rooms at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, such as the blacksmith shop. In this video, Marco, one of our blacksmiths, demonstrates the same blacksmithing methods available in the 1840s at the Fort to make a pencil holder out of some quarter inch st

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When it comes to the origins of the California Gold Rush, it is often mentioned in literature that James Marshall found gold at the sawmill on January 24, 1848 and he will bring it to Sutter’s Fort four days later to share the news and they will try to keep it secret until word gets out. How does word get out though? On February 14, 1848, Jacob Wittmer, a teamster who was working at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, arrived at Sam Brannan and Charles C. Smith’s mercantile store. The store was located sou

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