The city of Sacramento was
founded in 1848 on the Pacific coast, and quickly grew due to the
California Gold Rush. It was incorporated into a city in 1850, and later
became the state's capital in 1854. This beautiful map provides a look
back to the early beginnings of the city, and includes insets of the
towns early structures. Complete reference list below.
The following booster statement was
included on the map:
Sacramento, Cal.
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SACRAMENTO, the capital city of
California, is situated at the confluence of the American and Sacramento
rivers, ninety miles easterly from San Francisco, eighteen miles
westerly from the lower foothills of the Sierra range, and nearly in the
center of the State; and for a political seat could not be better
located. The city has a population of 80,000. Its municipal area is in
excess of four square miles. Fully two-thirds if this is compactly
built. Its streets are broad, heavily shaded, and afford admirable
drives. In its homes, Sacramentans take pardonable pride, since, for
beauty of surrounding, floral wealth and choice foliage, their equals
are few.
The city is admirably related by railroads to the
trade and transportation interests if the coast. The California and
Oregon Railroad leads hence to and through Oregon, the Central Pacific
east to the transmontane regions, the California Pacific on the west
side of the Sacramento river connects the city with San Francisco and
its upper suburban towns and cities; the Western Pacific connects it
with the San Joaquin valley, the Southern Pacific leading to the Gulf of
Mexico, and by continuation from Lathrop makes a second connection with
San Francisco, and by branch lines with the Santa Clara valley. The
Sacramento Valley and Placerville line leads from the capital city to
the El Dorado Sierras. Feeder to the great Central lines connect
Sacramento with the leading counties of the State; both coast and
interior. By navigation of the Sacramento river, the city has trade
relations with the entire tier if river counties.
Sacramento is liberally endowed with churches. They represent nearly all
denominations, and the church edifices are nearly all fine, and some are
very imposing structures. There is maintained the best equipped school
system, supplemented by several private educational institutions. One of
these, the Sacramento School of Design, occupies the E. B. Crocker Art
Gallery, a superb building presented to the city by Mrs. E. B. Crocker,
and valued, with its collection of oil paintings, at about six hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. The State capitol, situated in the heart of
the city, is a classical structure, erected at a cost of upwards of
three millions of dollars. The Catholic Cathedral, Agricultural
Pavilion, Odd Fellows' Temple, Sacramento and Capital Grammar Schools,
Courthouse and Hall of Records are among the notably large and fine
structures. The Railroad Hospital, High School, Masonic Hall, Free
Library, chief hotels, State Printing Office, Old Ladies Home, and
several business structures are buildings that attract attention and are
a source of local pride, The Central Pacific Railroads shops in this
city are the largest mechanical works upon the coast, and give
employment to two thousand skilled and unskilled workmen. There are many
factors in the industry of the city.
The jobbing trade of
Sacramento aggregates about sixty million dollars annually, and extends
throughout all the Central and northern and mountain sections, and the
adjacent States and Territories. Sacramento is the chief fruit shipping
station of the State, sending forward in season far more fruit that any
other point, and generally as much as most others combined. Its rail and
river transportation facilities, nearness to the mountain range,
contiguity to the great foothill region, centrality of location, and
climatic desirability, all conspire to make it the most prominent fruit
forwarding post of the State.
The county of Sacramento is
largely devoted to fruit-raising and for grapes, berries and general
fruits, its soil is not second - and in many respects first - in
comparison with all other sections. Its river bottom lands are
unquestionably the riches of the coast, making Sacramento pre-eminently
the chief hop-raising territory of the United States. The largest
hop-yard in the world is in this county, as also the second largest
vineyard in the world. Of wheat, barley and alfalfa, the county yields
abundantly and of the first quality. The business and property interests
maintain a vigilant Board of Trade, an Improvement Association and an
Immigration Society, all actively engaged in promoting local interests.
Irrigation has not been needed in the county, nor employed, save in
berry farms and gardens through agencies that lift water form bored
wells, it being found in quantity and purity in a gravel strata
underlying most of the county area.
The new comer will
find a climate genial and bracing, free from enervating quality, and
oranges and lemons ripening in the air will convince the most skeptical
of the practicableness of raising them for market in this section.
Semi-tropic plants flourish luxuriantly in all the Sacramento region,
the palm, olive, date, lime, almond, orange and lemon finding the
climate admirably adapted to their growth. In all deciduous fruits the
Sacramento region holds the palm, peaches, pears, apples, apricots and
all small fruits of the finest quality, are here grown in vast
abundance. The raisins made in Sacramento county, being grown without
irrigation, are sweeter and thinner skinned that the more famous Fresno
brands. The fines pickled olives exhibited last year were grown at
Florin, Sacramento county. The Sacramento section is emphatically
agricultural; all cereal fruits, grasses and vegetables being raised
with unparalleled success and of unsurpassed quality. The climate is
semi-tropical. The heat of summer, owing to the dryness of the
atmosphere, is not oppressive, and winter, as generally understood is
unknown - as an evidence of which December and January ripens the
orange, and February is the month of flowers especially, while
vegetables are grown the year round, and berries are in market up to
December 1st, and even later. Snow and ice and freezing temperatures are
not factors in the climate. The health of Sacramento city is of high
character, and she stands second as the healthiest city in the land. No
other county has such varied resources that are more easily or
profitably developed. The outlook for the city and its suburban country
appears to be the brightest. Free from the speculative craze; values not
suffering by inflation or decadence; immigration steadily coming in of
the most desirable character; local capital being abundant, trade
expanding, and the adornment pf the city and its suburbs constantly
being made; manufacturers increasing, transportation facilities
augmenting; society orderly, stable and of high moral tone, Sacramento
presents herself as one of the most desirable and inviting localities of
the Pacific coast.
Features numbered references to the following locations:
1. S. P.
Co.'s R.R. Shops.
2. S. P. Depot.
3. City Hall Water
Works
4. S. P. Co.'s Foundry.
5. S. P. Co.'s
Hospital.
6. Electric Light Works.
7. Hall of
Records.
8. County Court House.
9. City Free
Library.
10. Episcopal Church
11. Congregational Church.
12.
Pioneer's Church.
13. Golden Eagle Hotel.
14. Capitol Hotel.
15. Masonic Temple.
16. 6th St. M. E. Church.
17. Presbyterian
Church.
18. Armory Hall.
19. Metropolitan Theatre.
20.
Record-Union Office.
21. Western Hotel.
22. Crocker Art Gallery.
23. Capital Grammar School.
24. High School.
25. First Baptist
Church.
26. Clunie Opera House.
27. Odd Fellows Temple.
28.
Turner Hall.
29. Catholic Cathedral.
30. German Lutheran Church.
31. City Plaza.
32. State Capitol.
33. State Exposition
Building.
34. State Printing Office.
35. Grammar School
36.
Sutter's Old Fort.
37. "Nob Hill"
38. Town of Enterprise.
39.
City Cemetery.
40. "Nama Colony"
A. Street Railways.
B.
Electric Railway. |
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