The Sacramento Historic City Cemetery contains the gravesites of the city’s earliest inhabitants. One of those buried at the cemetery is Nelson Ray. Nelson was born into slavery and came to California during the Gold Rush. He was able to mine for enough gold to secure the freedom of his wife and some of his children. He will later reunite with other family in Sacramento. The life of Nelson Ray is an inspiring story that also helps represent the Black experience in California during the Gold Rush

While people throughout California made their way to the Sacramento Valley during the early days of the Gold Rush, across the continent on July 19. 1848, a group of 300 people met in Seneca Falls, New York to hold a convention. This convention was to discuss the “social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women." This was the first formal women’s rights convention to be held in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped author the Declaration of Sentiments, which was modeled upon

Happy birthday to us! On August 3, 1985, the Sacramento History Museum, then known as the Sacramento History Center, opened in Old Sacramento. In this video, Jared discusses our museum’s beginnings and how our museum is housed in a reconstruction of Sacramento‘s City Hall and Waterworks building that was originally constructed at the same site in 1854. He printed an image from a modern photo engraving based on a lithograph of the building published in 1857. From all of us at the building tucked