Revisiting Sacramento’s Gold Rush: Maritime Archeological Investigation in the Sacramento River
Author(s): Joe Grinnan; Deborah Marx; Denise Jaffke
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
In 2018, archaeologists from SEARCH and California Department of Parks and Recreation conducted an underwater remote-sensing survey in the Sacramento River, Sacramento County, California. The survey focused on relocating and assessing the condition of three vessels associated with the Sacramento gold rush: the Sterling and La Grange in downtown Sacramento and the Clarksburg Wreck approximately 26 kilometers (16 miles) downstream. This poster will review the results of the 2018 survey and previous work conducted on these gold rush shipwrecks. Additionally, it will explore gold rush history along the Sacramento River through the vessels that aided in the industry’s development.
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Revisiting Sacramento’s Gold Rush: Maritime Archeological Investigation in the Sacramento River. Joe Grinnan, Deborah Marx, Denise Jaffke. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457364)
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Keywords
General
California
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Gold Rush
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Shipwreck
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Nineteenth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 226