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A sketch of Sutter’s Fort as it appeared in 1862, fourteen years after its abandonment by John Sutter. The land formerly belonging to Sutter was contested in the years preceding this image with the City of Sacramento seeking to claim the former Mexican land grant. Decades before the restoration spearheaded by the Sons of the Golden West, in this image the fort lacks walls and consists of a single central building flanked by two smaller structures and surrounded by vegetation.
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