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| Landmark #812 | Sacramento County | Visited: March 22, 2015 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque on a parking garage wall! This landmark also counts as #600, the Headquarters of the Big Four, which has been retired! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: Founded in December 1848 by John A. Sutter, Jr., Sacramento was an outgrowth of Sutter’s Fort established by his father, Captain John A. Sutter, in 1839. State capital since 1854, during the gold rush it was a major distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and terminus for wagon train, stagecoach, riverboat, telegraph, Pony Express, and the first transcontinental railroad.
OTHER TIDBITS: Sacramento was in a prime location for shipping and trading, because of its rivers, but it’s also because of these rivers that it was so troublesome. The rivers loved to flood! To fix this, the city launched a massive building project in 1862 to raise the street levels of the entire street using thousands of tons of imported dirt! That means the streets of Sacramento today are much, much higher than they were in the early days of settlement! This was also the headquarters of the Big Four: Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, who worked together to create the Central Pacific Railroad Company, which ran from Sacramento through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Promontory Point, Utah, where the Golden Spike was driven, creating the first transcontinental railroad! For some reason, this landmark was retired and merged into the larger Old Sacramento! How can history ever really retire?! This landmark is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: Old Sacramento State Historic Park Plaque located on wall at 2nd St between J and I Sts Sacramento, CA 95814 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~384mi (618km) — 6.4hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |
