Marshall Village was incorporated in 1982 by Powell Development.   A total of 132 single family homes have been built in this fully built-out association. Front yard maintenance, exterior painting including outside fences, and private street maintenance are included in the monthly dues.  The annual membership meeting is the third Tuesday in May at 7:30 PM in the Gold River Community Center.  The Board of Directors are elected for a two year term have monthly meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of the month, 7:30 PM, at the Gold River Community Center. Members of this village may search or download their documents and handbook by CC&R Search.  The Latest Landscaping Information  can also be found at this link.

The theme of Marshall Village is Marshall's discovery of gold and the geology of the gold region.  Feeder streets bear names that refer to the gold discovery site, while interior names are minerals, geologic terms, and formations.

The geology of the Sierra Nevada consists basically of old sedimentary rocks with granitic intrusions.  Gold deposits are found where sedimentary rocks, crushed and recrystallized by heat, fracture under the pressure of granite magma pushing upward.  The fractures fill with heated water carrying dissolved gold and quartz.  As the water rises toward the surface, it cools, depositing gold and quartz in the cracks and creating the quartz veins in which gold is found.

Weathering of the quartz veins erodes the gold and allows it to be washed down the streams of the Sierra.  This eroded gold is cought in natural riffles of rivers, as in a sluice box, forming placer deposits found in both prehistoric river beds and present streams.  The gold discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848 had been washed down the Anerican River, to be trapped in the most famous tailrace the world has ever known.

James Marshall, born in New Jersey in 1810, came to California via Oregon in 1845.  After participating in the abortive Bear Flag Revolt, Marshall joined Johann Augustus Sutter in building a sawmill at Coloma.  On January 24, 1848, just before the mill was completed, Marshall found gold in the tailrace.  He told Sutter of his find, and the news spread.  In the ensuring Gold Rush, both Marshall and Sutter failed to prosper.  Marshall, improverished and bitter,  died in 1885.   After his death, a monument was erected at Coloma in his memory.