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Landmark information
- Location:
Sutter's Fort State Historic Park, 27th and L streets, Sacramento - Plaque:
No Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
5/24/1997 - Date Most Recently Visited:
2/15/2015 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 34.327, W 121 28.27 - Other Designations:
National Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
About this landmark
From the state:
John Augustus Sutter, born of Swiss parents in Germany, arrived in New York in July 1834 and in California in July 1839. He founded the fort in 1839 to protect 'New Helvetia,' his 76-square-mile Mexican land grant. Of the original fort, the two-story central building, made of adobe and oak, remains, the fort's outer walls and rooms, which had disappeared by the 1860s, were reconstructed after the State acquired the property in 1890.