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Within a few years after the end of the gold rush, in 1863, the groundbreaking ceremony for the western leg of the First transcontinental railroad was held in Sacramento. The line's completion, some six years later, financed in part with Gold Rush money, [163] united California with the central and eastern United States. Travel that had taken ...
The Sacramento History Museum is a historical museum in Sacramento, California, which interprets the history of Sacramento and the California Gold Rush. The museum is located within the Old Sacramento State Historic Park , situated along the Sacramento River between the Tower Bridge and I Street Bridge .
Birch Building on 2nd Street The Union Hotel, Birch Building, and Orleans Hotel (recently reconstructed). While the architecture from this period is commonly attributed to Victorian gold miners, characteristics of West End, such as multi-storied buildings, large arched doorways, full-height balcony windows and the use of decorative wrought-iron balconies, were most ubiquitous in parts of Spain ...
The Sacramento Pioneer Association was founded on January 24, 1854, in the Jones Hotel (Sam Brannan House) by 70 Sacramento California pioneers. Just five years after the 1849 California Gold Rush , these early pioneers wanted to celebrate and preserve the unique time and place of the Gold Rush and those that came west for opportunity.
They told their story on returning to the fort, and soon about 150 Mormons and other miners flocked to the site, which was named Mormon Island. This was the first major gold strike in California after James W. Marshall's discovery at Coloma. The first ball in Sacramento County was held there on December 25, 1849.
Indigenous people such as the Miwok [2] and Maidu Indians were the original inhabitants of the north Californian Central Valley. [3] Of the Maidu, the Nisenan Maidu group were the principal inhabitants of pre-Columbian Sacramento; the peoples of this tribe were hunter-gatherers, relying on foraged nuts and berries and fish from local rivers instead of food generated by agricultural means.
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 where the Sacramento and American Rivers meet. This establishment, known as Sutter's Fort, was where the first traces of gold were found, initiating the California Gold Rush.
When the gold rush ended, most of the mines were closed but toxic acidic water and chemicals continue to leak from within, into west-side Sacramento tributaries such as Cache Creek and Putah Creek. According to the Sacramento Watershed River Program, an abandoned mercury mine, which is currently an EPA superfund site, is located in the Cache ...