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Description
Pictured is a July 17, 1932, public gathering at the picnic grounds of East Sacramento's Helvetia Park. Prior to the Park's existence - 1920 to 1953 - it served as the burial ground for Sutter's Fort in the 1840s and 50s. The first person interred at the cemetery was Major Cloud, a paymaster of the United States Army who was fatally injured in 1847 in a fall from his horse. Most of the ground's bodies were disinterred and buried elsewhere prior to conversion into a park. In the mid-1950s, the area became Sutter Middle School.
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