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| Landmark #591 | Sacramento County | Visited: March 21, 2015 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque on a millstone at the corner of Stanford Park! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: Captain John A. Sutter, after coming up the Sacramento River from Yerba Buena in August 1839, landed approximately two hundred feet north of here, at what was then the south bank of the American River. A short time thereafter he established a permanent camp, and later built his fort. Sutter and his men were the first non-Indian settlers within the present city limits of Sacramento.
OTHER TIDBITS: You can read more about John Sutter and his famous fort here! |
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: NE corner of 28th and C Sts In Stanford Park Sacramento, CA 95816 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~386mi (622km) — 6.5hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |