Sacramento
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- Names
Sacramento
Fort Sutter
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- On Sacramento river; fort and trading post expanded with gold trade in 1840s; was western terminus of Pony Express and site of first California railroad in mid-19th cen.; modern ship canal built 1963; noted for Fort Sutter (1840) & State Capitol (1869-1874).
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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