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The Spirit of Sacramento, also known as the Grand Romance, [1] formerly known as the Putah, the Mansion Belle, the Chicu San [2] and unofficially known as the Old Spirit of Sacramento, is a snagboat famous for its appearance in the 1955 film Blood Alley starring John Wayne. After a devastating fire in 1996, the boat fell into disrepair and now ...
Steamboat Slough is an alternate branch of the Sacramento River, named for its popular use by steamboats traveling between San Francisco and Sacramento.Its mouth is found at an elevation of 3 feet (0.9 m), 2 miles (3 km) above Rio Vista, between Grand Island and Ryer Island.
Old Sacramento State Historic Park occupies around one third of the property within the Old Sacramento Historic District of Sacramento, California. The Old Sacramento Historic District is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. The Historic District is sometimes abbreviated as Old Sacramento, or Old Sac, and since the 1960s has been ...
The Old Sacramento State Historical Park currently includes the California State Railroad Museum, a train depot for excursion train rides and reconstructions of a cluster of early commercial ...
Delta King is a 285-foot-long sternwheel steamboat (87 m) and the sister ship of Delta Queen, built in Glasgow, Scotland and Stockton, California for the California Transportation Company's service between Sacramento and San Francisco, California.
When the airport broke ground on a $1 billion project to upgrade Sacramento International Airport in 2008, replacing Terminal B, adding gates for jets and building another parking garage, it ...
The building was also the first location of the California Supreme Court. The building is now home to one of two museums about the history of Wells Fargo in Sacramento. This location features a re-created 19th-century Wells Fargo Express Company office, artifacts of company history and the California Gold Rush era, and exhibits about the ...
Dixon-Simmons and her quarter horse, Penny, took the mail on its last leg from the Discovery Park and arrived in Old Sacramento at 4:27 p.m., completing her 34th year with the National Pony ...