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. Natio
The Big Four Building, Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento during Gold Rush Days 2011
Birch Building on 2nd Street
The Union Hotel, Birch Building, and Orleans Hotel (recently reconstructed)
"The Big Four" was the name popularly given to the famous and influential businessmen, and railroad tycoons — also called robber barons — who funded the Central Pacific Railroad, which formed the west
Old Sacramento State Historic Park
…constructed through the joint efforts of California's railroad pioneers: Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, known as The Big Four. Lady Adams Building - oldest non-residential building in Old Sacramento and is California Historical Landmark No. 603…
REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD: l.—E. B. Crocker. 2.—C. P. Huntington. 3.—Leland Stanford. 4.—Charles Crocker. 5.—Mark Hopkins. From 1878 "The Pacific tourist"