[Mormon Battalion] Following their discharge, many men helped build flour mills and sawmills in northern California. Some of them were among the first to discover gold at Sutter's Mill. Men from Captain Davis's Company A were responsible for opening the first wagon road over the southern route from California to Utah in . 1848
[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Mormon Battalion, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
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