major requirements for the CMI professional designation include property tax membership in the Institute, property tax administrative experience, successful completion of IPT property tax schools, other
The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter, a Sacramento agriculturalist.
In 1848, gold was discovered in California. Within two years, some quarter of a million gold seekers had arrived from almost every country in the world, stimulating California's economy and forming multicultural communities that still exist today. The last great gold rush took place in the Klondike in 1897.