Sutter's Fort is in basically Downtown Sacramento (California's state captial) was established in 1839 as a trading post in what was known as Alta California. John Sutter built it and it opened in 1841. After gold was found at Sutter's Mill in 1848, the fort was abandonded. In 1891, the Native Sons of the Golden West purchased and rehablitated the Fort. The repair efforts were done in 1893 and given to the State of California:
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| A drawing of the original fort |
Sutter's Fort is an amazing place that oozes with the history of the state of California.
Thank you for sharing this spot. One that I haven't been and since I'm going that way soon, I will definitely put this in my stop.
ReplyDeleteTHat's awesome! I love tours of old locations! We recently toured an old grinding mill - it is really cool to see how things were done years ago! I was born in the wrong era!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous job restoring the fort! I'm so glad you shared these photos with us! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking up to My Corner of the World!
DeleteSuch great history to explore! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tour. Very interesting!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! A wonderful post for MyCornerOfTheWorld... thank you for sharing. I wish you a good week.
ReplyDeleteA very informative series of impressive fotos !
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Love your photos. They're always intriguing and definitely making me yell TAKE ME WITH!!!! Love the places you visit. So very interesting and thanks so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice nostalgic tour I enjoyed the photos :-)
ReplyDeleteHave a wagonwheeltastic week :-)
What a historical and interesting location Patrick - quite different to a lot of the other places you share - and certainly a little snapshot of its time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up with us at MLSTL and I've shared on my SM :)
What a cool place to visit. Thanks for sharing this with us - I love historical places xx Maria
ReplyDeleteLooks like an interesting place to visit!
ReplyDeleteLove the loom, just bought a smaller and for younger person to use. Anyhow supposedly I'm some relation to the Sutter My second great grandma was Barbra Sutter who came from Graubunden Switzerland
ReplyDeleteWell Wednesday is when I have fun and meet all sort new bloggers, hope you find the time to stop by for a cup of coffee
Interesting - I never knew about Sutter's Fort. I looked it up - it really *is* in downtown Sacramento (i.e., the "box" be freeways and the rivers). Thanks for sharing it, and for participating in WW.
ReplyDeleteNeat! Thanks for sharing and linking on Amanda's Books and More!
ReplyDeleteI used to take my kids to a living open air museum like this one of South Africa's pioneer days. I think it closed down, but it was fun to buy bread that was milled from the old mill and baked traditionally in an outdoor wood burning oven. They also made old fashioned candles and laundry soap.
Here's a link to one of my posts: http://1camera1mom.blogspot.com/2014/05/open-air-museum-south-africa-part-2.html
That's neat! Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI liked reading the little historic trivia about Sutter's Fort as well as the photos. The olden way of life preserved inside the fort gave me a peek into what would have prevailed in those times.
ReplyDeleteI am visiting here from the #WordlessWednesday link up.
Hubby wants to visit here. We're planning on doing that this summer. What a lovely post.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop, Patrick.
Have a fabulous day. 😎
We are studying Sutter's Fort and Mill this week! Thanks for the pictures.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see how people lived and the tools they used. Thanks for sharing Sutter's Fort and Mill with us Patrick at #MLSTL and have another adventurous week!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like an extremely interesting place to visit! #dreamteam
ReplyDeleteSo cool! My son would love this!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing at The Really Crafty Link Party, and have a great weekend!
Lots of lovely photos to remember your trip by! It looks like a fab place to visit. Thanks for joining us for the #dreamteam linky.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great day out - Thanks for joining us at #TriumphantTales
ReplyDeleteOh man! I love places like that! I love that you adventure out and visit cool places - and share those places with us. We get to live vicariously through you! :)
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to have been born in this era I can not imagine how tough they had it, yet then I wonder were they the lucky ones? As technology becomes more and more of our daily lives I have to wonder if it is the simpler times I crave? . #ABloggingGoodTime
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting place to visit. I would love to take a look around.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing at The Wednesday Blog Hop :)
That's cool! We used to have an "old world" place near Sydney called "Old Sydney Town". I don't think it exists anymore. I should look that up. Plenty of other historic stuff though (although our history is relatively young of course). Just over 200 years.
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