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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Q5N_rededication-of-el-centro-mexicano-plaque_Sacramento-CA.html
First panel:
The Comité Centro Mexicano commemorates the same respect and sense of equality dictated by this historical plaque. With great honor we re-dedicate it in honor of all humanity on this date.
From 1948 to 1975, El Centro Mexic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P16_4th-avenue-wayne-hultgren-light-rail-station_Sacramento-CA.html
In 1975 Wayne Hultgren founded the Modern Transit Society of Sacramento to promote public transit as an alternative to the automobile and to alleviate congestion and air pollution. Under his determined leadership, the Modern Transit Society organi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1252_the-firemans-plot_Sacramento-CA.html
"First in Dangerand Always Ready"
This inscription, engraved on a silver trumpet presented to Engine Company No. 3 in 1853, a token of appreciation, perhaps best describes Sacramento's gallant volunteer fire department as a whole.
As almost…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSFV_mark-hopkins-monument_Sacramento-CA.html
Construction began on this splendid mausoleum in 1878 when the then very wealthy Mary Hopkins wished to provide a suitable resting place for her recently deceased husband Mark Hopkins.
Mark Hopkins had operated first a grocery store and then a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMWZ_in-memory-of-the-old-tier-grounds_Sacramento-CA.html
The unmarked last resting place of over three thousand pioneers, their exact place of burial, somewhere between the north border of Broadway and the north portion of the cemetery, and between 9th and 11th Streets, known but to their God.
Buried…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB5E_edmonds-field_Sacramento-CA.html
This was the site of home plate at Edmonds Field, home of the Pacific Coast League's Sacramento Solons Baseball Team for fifty years. More than 4,200 games were played here over those years and Solon fans set several PCL attendance records.
The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA5S_luella-buckminster-johnston_Sacramento-CA.html
An outspoken proponent of suffrage for women, she became the first of her gender elected to a municipal office in Sacramento, being swept into office by an all male electorate before women attained the right to vote. Widow of a politician and scho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM95V_pioneer-cemetery-grove_Sacramento-CA.html
The Sacramento Pioneer Association was founded by men who came to California before 1850 and wished to preserve the memories of the epochal events in the Gold Rush and the earliest days of Sacramento. They purchased much of Pioneer Grove from the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM95T_charles-duncombe-m-d-1787-1862_Sacramento-CA.html
Dr. Duncombe was the first physician on record to come to Sacramento. A Native of Stanford, Connecticut, he moved to Upper Canada (now Ontario) to become a landowner and member of Parliament. Ontario's first medical school, the Talbot Dyspensary a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM95P_the-bennett-brothers_Sacramento-CA.html
Arrived in Sacramento in 1850 from Mankato, MinnesotaLeaving their brother Pharis to rest in Genoa, NevadaProsper & Esther settled near Verona in Sutter County to farm in 1852Members of the Bennett Family and Friends buried here are:Prosper Bennet…