Sacramento, California, Sacramento metropolitan area, National Register of Historic Places listings in Sacramento County, California, Plains and Sierra Miwok, James B. Aguayo-Martel, California Musical Theatre
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Sacramento metropolitan area, National Register of Historic Places
listings in Sacramento County, California, Plains and Sierra Miwok,
James B. Aguayo-Martel, California Musical Theatre, Sacramento
Municipal Utility District, Performing Animal Welfare Society,
Orcuttia viscida, Urban redevelopment in Sacramento, The Rancho
Cordova Grapevine. Excerpt: Sacramento is the capital city of the
U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County.
It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the
American River in the northern portion of California's
expansive Central Valley. With a 2009 estimated population of
466,676, it is the sixth-largest city in California. Sacramento is
the core cultural and economic center of the Sacramento
metropolitan area which includes seven counties; with an estimated
population of 2,927,123. Its metropolitan area is the fourth
largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles Area, San
Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area as well as
the 25th largest in the United States. A city attaining global
status, Sacramento was cited by Time magazine as America's most
ethnically and racially integrated city in 2002. Sacramento became
a city through the efforts of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, and
James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection
of Sutter's Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839.
During the California Gold Rush, Sacramento was a major
distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a
terminus for wagon trains, stagecoaches, riverboats, the telegraph,
the Pony Express, and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
California State University, Sacramento, more commonly known as
Sacramento State or Sac State, is the major local university. It is
one of the twenty-three campuses of the California State University
system. In addition, the University of California, Davis, is
located in nearby Davis, 15 miles (24 km) west of the capital. The
UC Davis Medical Center, a world-renowned research hospital, is
located in the city of Sacramento. Nisenan (Southern Maidu) and
Plains Miwok Indians have lived in the area for perhaps thousands
of years. Unlike the settlers who would eventually make Sacramento
their home, these Indians left little evidence of their existence.
Traditionally, their diet was dominated by
