Adventure 051, Site 088 – Columa Road

Capture California, the Game-2012

Adventure: 051, Site 088 – Columa Road

California Landmark Number: 745

Team: Thing One, Thing Two

Date:  September 27, 2012

Location:

Latitude: 38° 34.311′ N

Longitude: 121° 28.224′ W

Address: NE corner of 28th and L Sts, Sacramento

Description:


Goldminers needed to start down this road to go to get to th gold fields. We did not have to go nearly so far for this marker—just a few hundred feet down L St. So it was not a strenuous adventure, just an informative adventure since neither one of us knew about this road before.



NO. 745 THE COLOMA ROAD-SUTTER'S FORT - Sutter's Fort, established by Capt. John A. Sutter in August 1839, marked the western end of the Coloma Road. Opened in 1847, this road ran from the fort to Sutter's sawmill at Coloma. Used by James W. Marshall in January 1848 to bring the news of the gold discovery to Sutter, it was traversed later by thousands of miners going to and from the diggings. In 1849 the Coloma Road became the route of California's first stageline, established by James E. Birch.
Location: NE corner of 28th and L Sts, Sacramento



References:

• HMDB.org
  

Overall Landmark References:

• David Schmitt's California State Historical Landmark (Schmitt)
  
• Wikipedia: California's National Landmarks (WCNL)
  
• State of California's California Historical Landmarks (CHL)
  
• Wikipedia: California State Landmarks (WCSL)
  
• State of California Historical Resources (CHR)
  
• Noehill (NOE)
  
• Historical Marker Database (HMDB)