Old Sacramento State Historic Park

Old Sacramento SHP Preserves the very beginnings of modern Sacramento. The Park includes the Gold Rush Embarcadero and the west terminus of the transcon RR

Old Sacramento State Historic Park preserves, protects, enhances and interprets the embarcadero of early Sacramento. In the 1840s and 1850s, tens of thousands of gold seekers came to California, landing on the wharves here. They headed for the gold fields and shipped their treasure to the mint here. In the 1860s and 1870s, the Central Pacific Railroad began building east from this spot, and for ma  ...