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Sacramento County (/ ˌ s æ k r ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. Its county seat is Sacramento, which has been the state capital of California since 1854. Sacramento County is the central county of the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.
Sacramento is both the capital city of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. As such, it hosts both the Californian government and the county administration, alongside the city government.
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- Prior to Sutter's Arrival – Through 1838
- Mexican Territory: Sutter's Colony – 1839 to 1848
- Foundation – 1848 to 1850
- Early Development – 1850 to 1860
- The Civil War Era to The Twentieth Century – 1861 to 1900
- World War I and The Prohibition – 1901 to 1930
- World War II and The Great Depression – 1931 to 1945
- 1946 to Present
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Indigenous people such as the Miwok and Maidu Indians were the original inhabitants of the north Californian Central Valley. Of the Maidu, the Nisenan Maidu group were the principal inhabitants of pre-Columbian Sacramento; the peoples of this tribe were hunter-gatherers, relying on foraged nuts and berries and fish from local rivers instead of food...
John Augustus Sutter arrived in the city of Yerba Buena, which would become the city of San Francisco, after encountering a massive storm en route from the city of Sitka, Russian Alaska; he was later redirected by Mexican officials to the colonial capital of Monterey, where he appealed to governor Juan Bautista Alvarado of Alta California his ambit...
The real city of Sacramento was developed around a wharf, called the Embarcadero, on the confluence of the American River and Sacramento River that Sutter had developed prior to his retirement in 1849 as a result of the gold discoveries which began at Sutter's Mill at Coloma. John Sutter, Sr. had replaced himself with his son, John Sutter, Jr., who...
In January 1850, a major flood devastated the city. Rain from heavy storms had saturated the grounds upon which Sacramento was built, and the American and Sacramento rivers crestedsimultaneously. The economic impact was significant because merchandise stationed at the Embarcadero was not secured and washed away in the flood. Sacramento rallied behi...
The California Republican Party was founded in Sacramento on April 18, 1856, when the first mass meeting aggregated in the city. When the American Civil War started, the city was strongly pro-Union, although the opposing side, the Confederate States of America, had active supporters within the city. The city of Sacramento's population was alarmed a...
The automobile was introduced to the city in 1900 through a local street fair; in 1903, the first car dealership opened, and the year after, twenty-seven Sacramentans owned cars. The number of automobile owners increased exponentially from that point. The advent of the automobile obsoleted careers involving horseback and overland wagon travel and d...
The Great Depression struck Sacramento alongside the rest of the United States in 1929, driving approximately 15,000 Sacramentans into unemployment by 1932. The local canning industry was affected first as demand for canned goods dropped drastically, laying off workers; a freeze later destroyed half of the Sacramento area's citrus trees in December...
Sacramento's preeminent university, California State University, Sacramento (alias Sac State), was founded in 1947. In 1966, Sacramento was the endpoint of a civil rights march of the United Farm Workers (UFW) led by Cesar Chavez. In the 1990s Joe Serna, Sacramento's first Hispanicmayor, named a park in Downtown Sacramento after Chávez. The Sacrame...
Severson, Thor (1973). Sacramento: An Illustrated History: 1839 to 1874. California Historical Society. ISBN 0-910312-22-2.Various, Authors (1973). Old Sacramento and Downtown. Sacramento, California: California Historical Society. ISBN 0-7385-3123-5.Flynn, Dan (1994). Inside Guide to Sacramento: The Hidden Gold of California's Capital. Sacramento, California: Embarcadero Press. ISBN 0-9643150-7-6.Resources: Sacramento Convention & Visitors Center. Sacramento County Historical Society.
Apr 21, 2024 · Guide to Sacramento County, California ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records. California Online Genealogy Records. Contents. 1 County Information. 1.1 Description. 1.2 County Courthouse. 1.3 Sacramento County, California Record Dates.
Sacramento County is a county in the U.S. state of California. It is in the Central Valley, along the Sacramento River. As of 2020, 1,585,055 people lived there. [1] Its county seat is Sacramento, which is also the state capital.
The Government of Sacramento County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Sacramento. Much of the government of California is in practice the responsibility of county governments, such as the Government of Sacramento County.
