Origins of California Business

 
 

Here you will find photographs of the origins of many California companies - the original buildings in which they began. They reflect simplicity - a room or garage in which to produce what a customer, perhaps just one customer, wants. And then they try grow.


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January 24, 1868 - James Marshall (above) discovered gold on the property of John Sutter on the South Fork of the American River in the Sierra foothills. It led to the Gold Rush, the greatest world-wide mass-migration in history and the creation of California business.

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