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Sacramento,CA - Sacramento County - Sacramento City Lithograph (Reprint) :

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Sacramento,CA - Sacramento County - Sacramento City Lithograph (Reprint) :
“View of Sacramento City as it Appeared During the Great Inundation in January 1850” by Geo. W. Casilear and Henry Bainbridge; Sacramento, Ca.; Number 1074/1500; reproduced for a Sacramento American Bicentennial Edition, lithograph measures 34x25” on cream heavy paper; crease in middle and at bottom left. The lithograph shows a flooded settlement with people in boats or on rafts and houses/tents submerged in the floodwaters.
Bottom text “The city is situated on a Plain on the east Bank of the Sacramento River about 143 miles from San Francisco. The rise of the River during the flood occasioned by heavy rains and the melting of Snow from the mountains was about 20 feet. The small Island covered with tents at the head of J. St. on the left is called by the Indians, Sa'cum a Knoll of ground bade by the Indians and the only dry spot visible for miles during the flood." Sutter's Fort can be see in the distance at the head of J. St. about 2 miles from the levee. In the background, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the Gold Region, crests' are mostly covered with snow the year round and present a most striking and beautiful appearance when viewed from the City. The City Hotel, the large frame building facing the Levee or River on the left of J. St. was built during the summer 1849 at a cost of $78,000. The Sutter Hotel, the large frame building facing the Levee on the extreme right, was built during the fall of 1849 costing $50,000. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by Casilear & Bainbridge in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York:
"We cheerfully concur in recommending the above Picture as being a true and accurate Drawing of the City of Sacramento, as it appeared during the flood of January 1850.”
In 1850 and again in 1861, Sacramentans were faced with a completely flooded town. After the devastating 1850 flood, Sacramento experienced a cholera epidemic and a flu epidemic, which crippled the town for several years. In 1861, legend has it, Governor Leland Stanford, who was inaugurated in early January 1861, attended his inauguration in a rowboat, which was not too far from his house in town on N street. The flood waters were so bad, it was reported, that when he returned to his house, he had to enter into it through the second floor window. In 1862 Sacramento raised the level of the city by landfill. Thus the previous first floors of buildings became the basements, which were later connected by tunnels under the streets of Old Sacramento. The tunnels became a network of opium dens, which were also mostly filled in. However, it is still possible to view portions of the "Sacramento Underground"[ http://eastsac.ca/about-sacramento/history-of-sacramento.html].
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