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With construction beginning in 1887, Sacramento’s Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is an example of the strength and history in Sacramento's architecture. Since many of the buildings date back to the mid-19th century, Sacramento is home to the largest concentration of buildings dating back to the California Gold Rush era in the United States. [8]
With these exceptions during the first years of the California Gold Rush its first steamboats where from eastern shipyards, knocked down and sent by ship to San Francisco Bay. There on the beach of Yerba Buena Cove and elsewhere, enterprising forty-niner shipbuilders reassembled them on the shore and sent them up the Sacramento River to Sacramento.
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.
In March 1878, The Sacramento Daily Union described the death of Hopkins — “one of Sacramento’s oldest and best friends” — as a “blow upon our city.” William Stephen Hamilton (1797-1850)
Old Sacramento State Historic Park attracts over 5 million visitors annually. Regular events include the Sacramento Music Festival (formerly known as the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee), Gold Rush Days, New Year's Eve events, the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the World Music and Dance Festival and Mardi Gras.
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 ...
Sacramento’s vibrant food scene is epitomized by beloved establishments like Club Pheasant, which etched a remarkable history before closing in 2022. These elements reveal the capital city’s ...
The Old Sacramento location remained dedicated to the history of Sacramento and the California Gold Rush, and was renamed the "Discovery Museum Gold Rush History Center." [ 1 ] In July 2008, under a directive from the City of Sacramento, the partnership between the History Center and the Science Center was dissolved.