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In 1845 James Marshall took a carpentry job with John Sutter, later constructing a sawmill to supply lumber for Sutter’s ambitious project—a colony he called New Helvetia (present-day Sacramento, Calif., and environs) after his native Switzerland. Alta California Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado had granted Sutter nearly 50,000 acres for his colony. Marshall sited the sawmill …
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