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Nancy Ross Gooch2024 Mar 13
Nancy Ross Gooch (1811—1901) was a black American woman, born as a slave, and California Gold Rush pioneer. Freed from slavery when California entered the Union as a Free State in 1850, she and husband Peter made their fortune right at the site where James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill by working for the miners doing carpentry and domestic chores. They used that money to buy their son, Andrew Monroe, from slavery in Missouri, as well as purchase land until they became major landholders in Coloma. Andrew and his wife Sarah successfully farmed that land, and it was their land which was eventually purchased from Andrew's son, Pearley, by the state government to create the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.
Nancy Ross Gooch (1811—1901) was a black American woman, born as a slave, and California Gold Rush pioneer. Freed from slavery when California entered the Union as a Free State in 1850, she and husband Peter made their fortune right at the site where James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill by working for the miners doing carpentry and domestic chores. They used that money to buy their son, Andrew Monroe, from slavery in Missouri, as well as purchase land until they became major landholders in Coloma. Andrew and his wife Sarah successfully farmed that land, and it was their land which was eventually purchased from Andrew's son, Pearley, by the state government to create the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.