4 days ago · Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park sits in Midtown Sacramento in an area that has been the homeland of the Nisenan people since time immemorial. From 1839 to 1849, Sutter’s Fort was the economic center of the first permanent European colonial settlement in …

EVENTS AT THE FORT. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park is alive with activity throughout the year. Regular living history events re-create life and activities of Sutter’s time. “Hands-on History Days” feature costumed staff demonstrating the tools, skills, food, and games of early Californians. Educational programs are

The function of the Department of Parks and Recreation at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park is to provide an engaging educational platform from which an accurate study of the complex history of 19th century California can be explored.

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School groups are welcome to visit Sutter’s Fort SHP free of charge with an advance reservation. Reservations are available every 15 minutes, from 10:00 am to 2:45 pm, Monday through Friday. To place a reservation, please call ReserveCalifornia at (866) 240-4655.

The diversity of California, today, is rooted in the events Sutter’s Fort is connected to in the 1840s. Experience this historic landmark with two different virtual field trip opportunities!

Sutter’s Fort SHP offers several educational programs to help connect youth to the history of our park. Most of these programs are aimed at elementary school classes, but we are excited to work with all K-12 and university groups to find appropriate programming.

More than 70 years of nearly continuous display at Sutter’s Fort has taken its toll on “Dolly.” The painted features of its face are faded, wooden limbs are splitting, and the fragile dress is disintegrating.

4 days ago · The park is located in downtown Sacramento at 26 th and K streets in downtown Sacramento - adjacent to Sutter's Fort State Historic Park. Traveling on I-80, from San Francisco, take Business 80/Hwy 50 east.

Like a number of historic sites in California, Sutter’s Fort has nominally shared the complex, and often disturbing 19th century history of California with its often deadly consequences for California Native Americans.