You call the clipper ship builder Donald McKay a “mechanic and craftsman as American hero.” Tell us about him and the “extreme clippers” he built in Boston. He was an immigrant success ...

The Noonday, a clipper ship built on Badger’s Island in the Piscataqua River in 1855 to haul cargo to California during the Gold Rush, was found mired in mud by an expedition of marine ...

In 1849, the David and Sophia Binkleman family from Germany heard about California’s Gold Rush. They made a bold and life-changing decision to sell their property and immigrate to the goldfields of ...

Among the cargo was 30,000 tons of gold mined in California. ... Items from Gold Rush shipwreck up for ... America passengers Ansel and Adeline Easton of San Francisco sank with the ship in 1857.