Here in the Sacramento area, paying homage to John Sutter is out of vogue because he was kind of a tyrant. But we name schools and stuff after James Marshall, the guy who actually discovered the gold at Coloma on the South Fork American River (SOFAR) in 1848. There's a very nice park there where you can visit a replica of the sawmill, and there's a wonderfully treacherous one-lane bridge over the river. I'm on the North Fork, which is in a steep canyon that's 1200 feet deep. I think the North Fork is far more dramatic and beautiful, but the gold was first found on the South Fork. There's still gold found on all three forks of the American River.