Image / Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, Where Gold was First Discovered in California, 1848

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Title: Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, Where Gold was First Discovered in California, 1848
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Postcards
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Shown in 1915 is Sutter's Fort, as viewed from the southeast. Cattle graze just outside the fort's northern wall. The card's inset shows the fort's central building. The annotation - "Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, Where Gold was First Discovered in California" - is incorrect. James Marshall discovered the seminal nugget in Coloma, California, nearly 50 miles to the east of Sacramento.
Type: Image
Identifier: BBSAC839
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll2/id/1706
Subject: Sutter's Fort

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