Blog post by Randi Richardson Rev. Isaac Owen, missionary of the Methodist Church, arrived in California in September 1849. After passing through Sacramento without stopping, they continued west toward San Francisco. On September 23 they camped in Grass Valley. It was there that Isaac stuck his cane in the soft ground, hung his hat on
Blog post by Randi Richardson After agreeing to accept a commission from the Central Board of the Methodist Church to serve as a missionary in California during 1849, Isaac Owen of Monroe County, Indiana, began placing ads in various newspapers soliciting individuals who might want to travel West with him as part of a wagon
Blog post by Randi Richardson The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush, one of the most important events to shape America’s history during the first half of the 19th century. As news of the discovery spread, thousands of fortune hunters from the United States and abroad traveled to
