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John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, [1] [2] was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital.
In 1839 John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant of German origin, settled in Alta California and began building a fortified settlement on a land grant of 48,827 acres at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River. This establishment, known as Sutter's Fort, was where the first traces of gold were found, initiating the California Gold ...
Sutter eventually criticized the slave-stealing behavior of these other settlers, even though he had participated a level of it himself. A month after this incident, Sutter (now employed as a U.S. federal Indian agent) reported to his superiors that other slavers, "with little or no cause would shoot them, steal away their women and children, and even go so far as to attack whole villages ...
The original 1990 general plan made little mention of the Indigenous communities — Miwok and Nisenan communities, among other tribes — that called the land home prior to John Sutter’s ...
In 1839 John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant of German origin, settled in Alta California and began building a fortified settlement on a land grant of 48,827 acres (197.60 km 2) at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers. He had been given the land by the Mexican government, supposedly under the stipulation that it would help to keep ...
John Sutter was a Swiss immigrant who is credited with building Sutter’s Fort and founding New Helvetia, an early settlement built near the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers near ...
Painting of Sutter's Fort ruins, c. 1900. To build his colony, John Sutter secured a 50,000 acre land grant in the Central Valley from the Mexican governor. [8] The main building of the fort is a two-story adobe structure built between 1841 and 1843 using Indigenous forced labor.
The Sutter Hock Farm is the first non-Indian settlement in Sutter County, USA established in 1841 by John Augustus Sutter. John Sutter's Hock Farm was the first large-scale agricultural settlement in Northern California, composed of grain, cattle, orchards and vineyards. Located on the Feather River, Hock Farm was intended by Sutter to be a ...