Description: 47634-B 92 SUTTER'S FOR STATE HISTORICAL MONUMENT - CALIFORNIAIn Sacramento, the capital city. "The Fort"Founded in 1839 by a Swiss emigrant, John Augustus Sutter, the Fort was the goal of covered wagon pioneers in the 1840s and was the scene of men and events that led to the discovery of gold at Coloma in 1848 and the founding of the Capital city of Sacramento the same year. From this focal point radiated the greatness of California today. The State Indian Museum is located on the grounds of Sutter's Fort and further adds to the pleasure of a visit to this area. 2701 L Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA 95816 Published and copyrighted © by STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Department of Natural Resources, DIVISION OF BEACHES & PARKSMade by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, NY Postmarked LODI, CA SEP 8 1963 6:30 PM Canceled 1962 4c Winslow Homer US Postage Stamp________________________________ To build his colony, John Sutter secured a 50,000 acre land grant in the Central Valley from the Mexican governor. The main building of the fort is a two-story adobe structure built between 1841 and 1843 using Indigenous forced labor. This building is the only original surviving structure at the reconstructed Sutter's Fort State Historic Park. It was in here on January 28, 1848, that James Marshall met privately with John Sutter in order to show him the gold that Marshall had found during the construction of Sutter's sawmill along the American River only four days earlier. Sutter built the original fort with walls 2.5 feet (0.76 m) thick and 15 to 18 feet (5.5 m) high. Pioneers took residence at Sutter's Fort around 1841. Following word of the Gold Rush, the fort was largely deserted by the 1850s and fell into disrepair. ConstructionThe party led by John Sutter landed on the bank of the American River in August 1839. The group included three Europeans and a Native American boy, probably to serve as interpreter. Some of the first people brought to the colony were Native Hawaiian workers, called Kanakas. Sutter had entered a contract with the governor of Hawaii to import and use the labor of these eight men and two women for three years. Once the first camp was set up, Sutter used local Miwok, Nisenan, and "missionized" Native Californians to build the first building, a three-room adobe. Agricultural colonyOnce the fort was built, Sutter established an agricultural colony with labor structures similar to Southern plantations and European feudalism. The colony relied on ranching and growing wheat crops. European colonists oversaw Native Californian and Native Hawaiian workers, who were often gravely mistreated. Sutter employed a caste system to ensure that the minority European settlers maintained control over the colony. Although some of the laborers worked voluntarily, many were subjected to brutal conditions that resembled enslavement or serfdom. DeclineAfter gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill (also owned by John Sutter) in Coloma on January 24, 1848, the fort was abandoned. PreservationJohn Sutter's desk, photographed at Sutter's Fort State Historic ParkIn 1891, the Native Sons of the Golden West, who sought to safeguard many of the landmarks of California's pioneer days, purchased and rehabilitated Sutter's Fort when the City of Sacramento sought to demolish it. Repair efforts were completed in 1893 and the fort was given by the Native Sons of the Golden West to the State of California. In 1947, the fort was transferred to the authority of California State Parks as Sutter's Fort State Historic Park. Most of the original neighborhood structures were initially built in the late 1930s as residences, many of which have been converted to commercial uses such as private medical practices. The history of the neighborhood is largely residential.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter%27s_Fort___________________ John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital. His employee James W. Marshall discovered gold, leading to the founding of the mill-making team at Sutter's Mill. Sutter, however, saw his own business ventures fail during the California Gold Rush, though those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter Jr., were more successful. Early lifeSutter was born on February 23, 1803, in Kandern, Baden in present-day Germany, to Johann Jakob Sutter, a foreman at a paper mill, and Christina Wilhelmine Sutter (née Stober). His father came from the nearby town of Rünenberg, in the canton of Basel in Switzerland, and his maternal grandfather was a pastor from Grenzach, on the Swiss-German border. After attending school in Kandern, Sutter studied at Saint-Blaise between 1818 and 1819, then worked as an apprentice at the Thurneysen printing and publishing house in Basel until 1823. Between 1823 and 1828, he worked as a clerk at clothing shops in Aarburg and Burgdorf. At age 21, he married the daughter of a rich widow. He operated a store but showed more interest in spending money than in earning it. Because of family circumstances and mounting debts, Johann faced charges that would have him placed in jail and so he decided to dodge trial and fled to America. He named himself Captain John Augustus Sutter. In May 1834, he left his wife and five children behind in Burgdorf, Switzerland, and with a French passport, he boarded the ship Sully, which travelled from Le Havre, France, to New York City, where it arrived on July 14, 1834https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sutter___________________ LegacyGeneral Sutter's grave in the Lititz, Pennsylvania, Moravian CemeteryThere are numerous California landmarks bearing the name of Sutter. Sutter Street in San Francisco is named for John A. Sutter. Sutter's Landing, Sutterville Road, Sutter Middle School, Sutter's Mill School, and Sutterville Elementary School in Sacramento are all named after him. The Sutterville Bend of the Sacramento River is named for Sutter, as is Sutter Health, a non-profit health care system in Northern California. The City of Sutter Creek, California and Sutter, California are also named after him. In Acapulco, Mexico, the property that used to belong to John Augustus Sutter Jr. became the Hotel Sutter, which is still in service. The Sutter Buttes, a mountain range near Yuba City, California, and Sutter County, California (of which Yuba City is the seat) are named after him as well.
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Subject: 1961 Sutter's Fort State Historical Monument, Sacramento Vintage
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Theme: 2701 L Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA 95816, Aerial View, Architecture, California State Historical Monument, Cities & Towns, Exhibitions, Famous Places, People, Roadside America, Social History, Tourism, Travel
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