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Photographer: Joseph Alvarado
Taken: January 21, 2023
Caption: The Moment of Discovery Marker
Additional Description: The inscription on the boulder reads:
“This day some kind of mettle was found
in the tail race that looks like goald.”
Henry W. Bigler, 1846
Submitted: January 28, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p702768
File Size: 13.629 Megabytes

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