History of Sacramento, California
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior.
A depiction of Sutter's Fort, as it had appeared in the 1840s.
Birds-eye view of Sacramento, ca. 1857
California State Capitol; one of few state capitols to fly POW flag
Theodore Judah plaque in Old Sacramento
New Helvetia, meaning "New Switzerland", was a 19th-century Alta California settlement and rancho, centered in present-day Sacramento, California.
An engraving of New Helvetia made in 1849