California’s historic capital
In the past year, Sacramento has gotten a bad rap, said Jane Engle in the Los Angeles Times. Besides dealing with a “dysfunctional legislature,” California’s capital watched as its homeless pitched a “Depression-style tent camp” on the outskirts of town, drawing national attention to the city as an epicenter of the economic crisis. Yet Sacramento, about 80 miles northeast of San Francisco, remains one of California’s most “underrated” cities. Every corner of the city abounds with history, from the California State Railroad Museum to the “eclectic” Crocker Art Museum to John Sutter’s 1839 adobe post in Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park. Sacramento is also a “living museum of 19th-century architecture.” Old Sacramento, a 28-acre state park along the riverfront, boasts the state’s “greatest concentration of historic buildings.” The Capitol building and the old Governor’s Mansion, with their stately white exteriors and “elaborate” interiors, are stunning examples of the century’s design.
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