Mrs. Ledyard Frink was an early Sacramento pioneer who came overland with her husband in a covered wagon, reaching Sacramento on September 1, 1850. Her husband, Ledyard Frink built a hotel on the southwest corner of Seventh and K Streets in the...
Andrew Jackson Stevens loved railroads and mechanics and came around the "Horn" to California in 1861 after almost a decade spent as machinist, foreman, fireman and engineer on rail lines in the East. In 1869 Leland Stanford appointed him Master...
Several men, dressed in period garb, stand around the eastern grounds of Sutter's Fort. In the center of the photograph are two cannons. One of the several military artifacts to live at the fort was a cannon known as "Old Union Boy." It had...
According to an account in Mc Gowan’s “History of the Sacramento Valley;” hops was a specialty crop grown in rows. However this crop was found only in a few areas of the Sacramento Valley. Yuba County claimed the most extensive hop fields...
This composite of portraits of early California pioneers shows members of the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers. The organization was composed of - as stated in the "Constitution and By-Laws of the Sacramento Society of California...
The Central Pacific Railroad’s “Governor Stanford” chugs by in this 1863 photograph. The 4-4-0 locomotive was built a year earlier by the Norris Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then brought to San Francisco by sailing...
As captured in this 1863 photograph, several rail workers stand in front of, and beside, the Central Pacific Railroad’s first depot and ticket office at Front and I Streets. It was designed in 1863 by Collis P. Huntington, and built in one...
Taken in 1865, this photograph shows the Central Pacific Railroad locomotive “A. A. Sargent,” also known as number seven, at the foot of J Street, facing east from Front Street. The locomotive’s namesake, Aaron Augustus Sargent, served as...
Thomas Calley Perkins, namesake of Perkins Station, appears in this 1865 photograph. A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, it has been written that he walked to California in 1850. In the same year, he settled in Brighton, which had been located...
Taken in 1865, this photograph shows the Central Pacific Railroad locomotive “A. A. Sargent,” also known as number seven, at the foot of J Street, facing east from Front Street. The locomotive’s namesake, Aaron Augustus Sargent, served as...
This photograph of prominent Sacramento dairyman John Frink Richardson was taken in circa 1873. Richardson arrived in Sacramento on September 1, 1850, from Wyoming County, New York. He died in January of 1906 and is buried in the City Cemetery.
Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, pictured here circa 1873, was the wife of dairyman John Frink Richardson. Born in England in October 1817; she came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Sacramento in 1849. Upon arriving in the young city, she...
Pictured in 1880 is Sacramento physician, Dr. Gregory W. Phelan. Born in New York State in 1822, Phelan came to Sacramento in 1849 as part of the Gold Rush. He soon thereafter started a medical practice which would operate until 1870. Outside of...
This circa 1880 postcard shows the Neubourg and Lages milling and malting business, also known as the Star Mills and Malt House, located on the west side of Fifth Street, between J and K Streets. Founded in 1866, by Christopher Lages and Leonard...
Located on G Street, between Second and Third Streets, and shown here in 1882 is the three track Central Pacific depot, also commonly known as the “Arcade Station.” One of the most modern stations of its day, the gothic-style garage, with its...
This 1884 portrait of Lula Bagwill comes in the form of a business card, taken at J.W. Leftwich's studio at 421 J Street. The back of the card bears the photographer's information. Attached: 1880 California census and segment from "Biographies of...
Shown prior to restoration, in circa 1885, is the central building at Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L streets. Prior to its rehabiliation, thanks in part to 20,000 dollars appropriated by California's legislature and to the efforts...
