Sacramento, California, USA
1854 - Sacramento City

Sacramento City, a port of entry and important commercial town in California, situated on the left bank of Sacramento river, a little below the mouth of the American river, in the midst of a level and extremely fertile country, 140 miles by water N. E. from San Francisco. It is regularly laid out, the street nearest the river being called Front street, the next Second, and so on ; these are crossed by others at right angles, distinguished by the letters of the alphabet. J and K streets are the principal business streets of the city. Till within a year or two nearly all the houses were pf wood, but recently a more substantial mode of building is coming into use. Since the inundations of 1849 and 1850, a good strong levee has been constructed around the town. In Sacramento and its vicinity are perhaps the finest gardens in California. As a centre of commerce, Sacramento City possesses great advantages. It is accessible for steamers and sailing vessels of a large size, at all seasons of the year; while not only the Sacramento river itself, but its important affluent, the Feather river, is navigable for small steamboats far above, into the interior of the country. These advantages have rendered this town the principal entrepot for supplying with provisions the great mining region of the north. Five or six newspapers are issued here. Population estimated at 20,000. The recent vote polled in Sacramento was 5536 — an increase of 538 on that of N'ov. 2d. 1852. 10 months previous.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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