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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6XF_margaret-rhodes-crocker_Sacramento-CA.html
The donation of her late husband's art collection to the city in 1885 gave Sacramento the first and finest art gallery west of the Mississippi. Other philanthropic gestures during her lifetime, which included generous support of the Protestant Orp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6XC_general-george-wright_Sacramento-CA.html
A graduate of West Point, his gallantry on the fields of battle earned him commendations; from the Seminole War in Florida, to the Mexican War, to the Indian Campaign in the Pacific Northwest. His unwavering loyalty to the Union would prompt Presi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6RP_captain-john-a-sutters-landing_Sacramento-CA.html
[Main Marker]: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 move…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5M6_freeport-railroad_Sacramento-CA.html
In 1863 a ten mile long short line was built from Brighton Station on the Sacramento Valley RR to this here spot. It was called "Freeport" because it avoided the high charges for landing freight and passengers at the Sacramento City embarcadero. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4AL_edward-kelley-school_Sacramento-CA.html
Formerly Brighton School has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AW_site-of-first-african-methodist-episcopal-church-on-the-pacific-coast_Sacramento-CA.html
This is the site of the first church building associated with an African American religious congregation on the Pacific Coast. The church was the Methodist Church of Colored People of Sacramento City, formally organized in 1850. In 1851 the congre…
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