8/14/2013
Landmark information
- Location:
NE corner of 28th and C Sts (in Stanford Park), Sacramento - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
2/29/1996 - Date Most Recently Visited:
8/14/2013 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 34.896, W 121 27.964
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Captain John A. Sutter's Landing
Captain John A. Sutter, after coming up the Sacramento River from Yerba Buena in August 1839, landed approximately two hundred feet north of here at what was then the south bank of the American River. A short time thereafter he moved to the site where he established a permanent camp, and later built his fort. Sutter and his men were the first settlers within the present city limits of Sacramento.