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Sacramento is the capital of the USA state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California. Sacramento is the core cultural and economic center of its 4 county metropolitan area (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties). The Sacramento Metropolitan Area is the largest in the Central Valley, and is the fourth argest in California, behind the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego area.
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Indigenous people such as the Miwok and Maidu Indians had dwelt in the present-day Sacramento area for perhaps as long as thousands of years. The precise length of time is subject to dispute among historians, anthropologists, and Native American studies scholars, although no sources exist to document the origins of the pre Columbian peoples that populated central California.
Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber estimated that in 1770 (prior to large scale European American settlement of the Sacramento area) the Maidu population was roughly 9,000. The Maidu people can be roughly divided into three groups, the Nisenan, Mountain Maidu, and Konkow. It was the Nisenan who occupied the area that is now Sacramento. Kroeber's estimate for the total Miwok population in 1770 was roughly 11,000. These estimates for Native populations include members of the Miwok and Maidu tribes throughout California, not strictly in the Sacramento area. Both the Miwok and Maidu peoples were hunters and gatherers. Since oak trees are plentiful in the area, their diet consisted largely of acorns and they devised methods of soaking pounded acorn flour to remove the bitter-tasting tannins in the nut. Between 1805 and 1810 the Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga "discovered" and explored the Sacramento area, and is credited with naming both the river and the valley "Sacramento". Although he did much exploring in and around Northern California, it was Joaquin Moraga and not Gabriel Moraga for whom the nearby city of Moraga, California was named.
Johann August Sutter (AKA John Sutter), born in 1803, was forced to leave Switzerland due to several bad business deals saddling him with a debt load he could not repay. Sutter arrived in New York City in 1834. After that he spent five years bouncing around the Western Hemisphere in places such as Santa Fe, Oregon, Hawaii, and Russian Alaska. Finally in 1839 he arrived in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco).
At this time Sacramento was a part of Mexico and Sutter became a Mexican citizen in order to get a land grant from Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado. Sutter’s Mexican land grant was quite large – 198 square kilometers, to be exact (an area larger than the European nation of Liechtenstein). Sutter named this land New Helvetia and in 1840 began construction of Fort Sutter, which remains one of the most famous historical landmarks in Sacramento.
Sutter viewed New Helvetia as a possible agrarian utopia, as his own kingdom in the wilderness. Certainly New Helvetia operated as a semi-autonomous governing unit within Mexico as it was the strongest and most populated European-American outpost in the northern part of Mexican California. Sutter employed hundreds of Indians and whites to work on his ranch, but also had a private army of over 200. Sutter’s Indian Army was the most powerful force in that part of the world during the late 1830s and early 1840s. This is another reason that he was granted such a large degree of autonomy by the Mexican government – they needed his army to keep the Indians of Northern California under control. By so doing, Sutter was stabilizing that remote part of their country for the Mexican government.
Many immigrants came from other parts of the country to live and work on and around New Helvetia. In fact, prior to the discovery of gold in 1848 most of the immigrants bound for Northern California were headed to New Helvetia including the Donner Party, who were unable to complete their trip as originally planned due to weather and other delays. As part of the commercial empire of New Helvetia, Sutter founded a lumber mill at Coloma. This was where the first discovery of gold was made that sparked the infamous California Gold Rush.
any people incorrectly assume Sutter's New Helvetia simply sprouted a city that came to be called Sacramento. In fact, the City of Sacramento was founded in the fall of 1848 by Sutter's son, John "August" Sutter, Jr. (in collaboration with merchant/land speculator Sam Brannan), and laid out by Captain William H. Warner of the US Army Corps of Engineers (with assistance from future American Civil War generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Edward Ord) against the elder Sutter’s wishes. As the Gold Rush brought a flood of settlers through New Helvetia into the nearby foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains (the so-called "Mother Lode" – an area of rich gold deposits), Sutter Jr. believed that money could be made in starting a city in the part of New Helvetia at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers.
The city was planned along a grid of numbered and lettered streets. This pattern still exists in Downtown Sacramento from C Street to Broadway, making navigation relatively simple even for those unfamiliar with the geography of the city. Sutter Jr.’s plan to build a city was a success, and in 1850 the new California State Legislature made Sacramento the first city in the state to be officially recognized. Due to an influx of miners, the city’s population grew rapidly, reaching 10,000 before the American Civil War.
In 1854 the state legislature voted to make Sacramento the permanent state capital. Construction on the California State Capitol commenced in 1860 but did not finish for fourteen years.
Sacramento's first daily newspaper, The Sacramento Union, began in 1851. It soon had competition in the form of The Daily Bee, which began in 1857 and later changed its name to The Sacramento Bee. The Bee is now the only major daily newspaper in Sacramento, but the Union survived until 1994.
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It is the mother church and seat of William K. Weigand, the ordinary bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento. The Cathedral is located in Downtown Sacramento, California, at the intersection of 11th and K Streets.
Sacramento Valley Rail Station (SAC) is a train station which serves the city of Sacramento, California.
Sacramento County is a county in the USA state of California. The county seat is the city of Sacramento, the state capital. Sacramento County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
The county was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border. The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santisimo Sacramento (Most Holy Sacrament), referring to the Eucharist. Most of the county is at an elevation close to sea level, with some areas below sea level. Hills along the eastern boundary rise to several hundred feet. Major watercourses in the county include the American River, Sacramento River and Dry Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River.
Areas
in Sacramento County include or have included ; Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom,
Galt, Isleton, Rancho Cordova, Sacramento, Antelope, Arden-Arcade, Carmichael,
Del Paso Heights, Elverta, Fair Oaks, Florin, Foothill Farms, Gold River, Hagginwood,
Herald, La Riviera, Laguna, Locke, Natoma, North Highlands, Orangevale, Parkway-South
Sacramento, Rancho Murieta, Rio Linda, Rosemont, Vineyard, Walnut Grove, Wilton
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