When gold was discovered in California in 1848 it was an undeveloped region without the infrastructure to feed, clothe, supply or house the thousands of people who were arriving daily.
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Albert Michelson, who measured the speed of light and became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (1907), attended school in Murphys.
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