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History of Sacramento California Continued
If you are thinking about buying a home whether it is foreclosure or shortsale in Sacramento, California, learning about the history of Sacramento, California is a prerequisite.
Sacramento from the Spanish word “sacrament” is the center both culturally and economically of a four county metropolitan area (Yolo, Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado). The Sacramento Metropolitan area with a combined population of 2,136,604 is the largest in the Central Valley and the fourth largest in California. Time magazine cited the Greater Sacramento area as America’s most integrated in 2002 and it was cited as one of the five “most livable” regions in America in 2004. The Sacramento Metropolitan area is fourth in size behind the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Diego area.
A swiss immigrant by the name of John Sutter and James W. Marshall were the two men whose efforts have been largely recognized for Sacramento’s citihood. In 1839 Sutter’s Fort was established enabling Sacramento to grow extremely fast because of its protection. A distribution point, and commercial and agricultural center during he California Gold Rush, Sacramento was also a terminus for the telegraph, riverboats, wagon trains, stagecoaches, Pony Express and the First Transcontinental Railroad. One of the twenty-three campuses of the California State University system, California State University, Sacramento, more commonly known as “Sacramento State” or “Sac State” is the major local University. 15 miles west of the capital in nearby Davis is the University of California, Davis. Sacramento also plays host to the world-renowned research hospital the UC Davis Medical Center. |
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