Throughout the 1850s, Judah was known as " Crazy Judah " for his idea to build a railroad through and over the wall of mountains known as the Sierra Nevada, a project which many people at the time considered impossible.

* Los Angeles and the surrounding counties had outbursts of vigilantism from the early 1850s as many of the criminals driven out of San Francisco and the Gold Country came into the less populated Southern California making the city and surrounding countryside a dangerous place for many years.

During the 1850s a number of artists found gainful employment as draftsmen attached to expeditions sent to map the Pacific coastline and the border between California and Mexico ( as well as plot practical railroad routes ); many of the drawings were reproduced as lithographs in the expedition reports.

He was admitted to the bar in 1841, becoming a skilled corporate lawyer, with many railroad companies as clients in the shaky railroad boom decade of the 1850s.

Having already been decimated by smallpox in the late 1820s, in the 1850s many Aborigines developed a taste for European luxuries such as bread, tobacco and alcohol.

The street is also home to two pubs, one being an 1850s hostelry The Leighton, the other The Torriano, which was for many years an old-fashioned community off-licence.

From the 1850s it was piped underground and is now one of London's many underground rivers.

When the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad Company introduced rail lines in the area in the 1850s, many new towns and communities sprang up.

The mines around Scott Valley attracted many immigrants from many parts of the United States and the world, attracted to the area by news of the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.

Such depot grounds were common in towns of the 1850s and may still be found at Gridley, Chatsworth, Odell, Towanda, McLean and many other central Illinois places.

At first glance the Original Town of Gridley looks like many towns laid out along new railroads built in central Illinois in the 1850s.

Rather than a central square, the original plat of Stanford, like many towns laid out in the 1850s and 1860s, featured two rectangular public areas labeled as " Depot Grounds " which extended along either side of the tracks.

In the late 1850s many settlers of Noble were well-to-do persons who came from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio to make their homes.

In the mid 1850s Hunt travelled to the Holy Land in search of accurate topographical and ethnographical material for further religious works, and to “ use my powers to make more tangible Jesus Christ ’ s history and teaching ”; there he painted The Scapegoat, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple and The Shadow of Death, along with many landscapes of the region.

In the 1850s, Victoria's rich soil attracted many farmers from Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

By the 1850s, the city of Campbell had several saloons, a drug store, many physicians, two to three general stores, and a post office.

From the 1850s to the 1900s, Westbury's population and ethnic diversity began to rise as many people of Irish, Italian and Polish origins continued to settle.

By the 1850s, the new technology of railroads was rapidly overtaking the canal systems in many areas ; it provided access to additional places.

There was an outbreak of cholera here in the 1850s, when over 500 people were " living in hollows " as a result of poverty which affected many fenland villages.

In the 1850s there were many proprietary schools which originated from a practitioner taking on multiple apprentices and establishing a school and which provided a practical legal education, as opposed to the one offered in the universities which offered an education in the theory, history and philosophy of law.

During the Kashubian diaspora, many families from Kościerzyna such as the Pellowskis and the Eichmans emigrated to the area of Winona, Minnesota in the United States, beginning in the late 1850s

From the 1850s, Lyttelton and then Christchurch outgrew Akaroa, which has developed into a holiday resort and retained many French influences as well as many of its nineteenth-century buildings.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

Sweden abolished most tariffs and other barriers to free trade in the 1850s and joined the gold standard in 1873.

During the 1850s, gold and silver were extracted in the valley.

William Greeneberry " Green " Russell was a Georgian who worked in the California gold fields in the 1850s.

A map from the late 1850s showing prominent routes to the gold regions.

The discovery of gold in the contested area in the late 1850s reignited the dispute.

In June 1855, Montez departed for a tour of Australia to resume her career by entertaining miners at the gold diggings during the gold-rush of the 1850s, arriving at Sydney on 16 August 1855.

The Australian gold rush of the 1850s and 1860s saw the first recorded plantings of European chestnut trees, brought in from Europe by the first settlers.

By the late 1850s, however, gold mining was beginning to decline and population dwindled as well.

In 1857 a gold rush to the Whiskey Flat area in the early 1850s brought a flood of new faces to the lower North Fork area, and in the mountains and canyons nearby.

In the early 1850s, Mexico having ceded California and gold having been discovered, there was a huge rush for land.

Near the end of the 1850s, the nearby mining camps of Hooperville and Deadwood began to disband as a result of the dwindling stores of placer gold, epidemic illness and decimating fires.

Production increased over the years in response to the needs of the U. S. military for gunpowder during the Mexican War ( 1846-1848 ), demand for blasting powder during the California gold rush of 1849, and the Crimean War ( 1850s ), when the Hazard Powder Company supplied both Britain and Russia with gunpowder, shipping a total of 500 tons to Britain.

Starting from Fort Smith, Arkansas, this trail was carved by thousands of Cherokee miners in the 1850s and 1860s, who sought gold mining rushes in Colorado, Wyoming and California

The community was originally named Ellensburg in the 1850s, but later took the name Gold Beach after a beach near the mouth of the Rogue River where hundreds of placer mines extracted gold.

Cave Junction is located in the Illinois Valley, where, starting in the 1850s, the non-native economy depended on gold mining.

Their culture was destroyed when gold was discovered in the early 1850s, causing the subsequent Rogue River Wars.

Starting in the early 1850s, gold mining was the main source of income in the Illinois Valley.

The Australian gold rushes from the 1850s brought wealth as well as new social tensions to Australia, including the miners ' Eureka Stockade rebellion.

The Australian gold rushes beginning in the 1850s provided funds for the construction of grand theatres in the Victorian style.

The compound swagman and colloquial variation swaggie first appeared in the 1850s during the Australian gold rushes, alongside less common terms such as bundleman.

In the 1850s Victoria was Australia's gold mining centre, its population increasing from 80, 000 in 1851 to 540, 000 in 1861.

The town, which was surveyed in 1848 and gazetted in 1849, was established to provide a market and administration for the farms, but soon after gold was discovered at nearby Rocky River and Gara Gorges, and a gold rush ensued, enlarging the town rapidly in the 1850s.

Until the massive influx of immigrants during the Australian gold rushes of the 1850s, the settler population had been dominated by English and Irish convicts and their descendants.