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[9] [10] Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California. Sacramento is also the cultural and economic core of the Greater Sacramento area, which at the 2020 census had a population of 2,680,831, [8] the fourth-largest metropolitan area in California. [11]
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior. Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border.
14000782. Significant dates. Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. July 4, 1961 [1] The Big Four Building is a historic 19th-century building in Downtown Sacramento, California. It is now located within Old Sacramento State Historic Park and the Old Sacramento National Historic District.
In 2013, Timothy Stephenson, right, and his husband, Jospeh Ginejko, held their 6-month-old twin daughters while watching San Francisco’s Gay Pride parade.
Updated July 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM. A 42-year-old man was arrested Thursday and accused of pushing a burning car into a ravine that sparked the massive Park Fire, an ongoing blaze that has burned ...
Pocket-Greenhaven (also known as The Pocket) is a suburban community within the city of Sacramento, California, 5 miles south of downtown Sacramento. It is bordered by Interstate 5 on the east and a semi-circular "pocket" bend in the Sacramento River on the south, west, and north. [1] The three exits into the Pocket-Greenhaven community off ...
Stevinson is an unincorporated community and census-designated place [ 4] in Merced County, California. [ 2] It is located 21 miles (34 km) west of Merced at an elevation of 85 feet (26 m). [ 2] The population was 275 at the 2020 census, [ 3] down from 313 at the 2010 census.
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. [6] Its county seat is Sacramento, [7] which has been the state capital of California since 1854. Sacramento County is the central county of the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.