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Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California)

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Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento, a 28 acre National Historic Landmark District and State Historic Park along the Sacramento River in California's capital city LCCN2013633902
Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento, a 28 acre National Historic Landmark District and State Historic Park along the Sacramento River in California's capital city LCCN2013633902

The Eagle Theatre in Gold Rush-era Sacramento was the first permanent theatre to be built in the state of California. Established in 1849 this relatively small structure was originally wood-framed and canvas-covered with a tin roof and a packed earth floor. The theatre was flooded on Jan 4, 1850. Located at 925 Front Street, it was one of the earliest structures in the new city. It featured many different types of entertainment for a rough crowd of wild west pioneers and gold miners from the small but rapidly growing area. Tickets to the theater could be obtained at a nearby saloon for two dollars and three dollars, most likely the Round Tent Saloon then located just to the south of the theatre.Today the theatre is owned by California Department of Parks and Recreation and is administered by the California State Railroad Museum as part of the Old Sacramento State Historic Park.

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Eagle Theatre (Sacramento, California)
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Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento, a 28 acre National Historic Landmark District and State Historic Park along the Sacramento River in California's capital city LCCN2013633902
Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento, a 28 acre National Historic Landmark District and State Historic Park along the Sacramento River in California's capital city LCCN2013633902
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California State Railroad Museum
California State Railroad Museum

The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, United States, interpreting the role of the "iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation. It is located in Old Sacramento State Historic Park at 111 I Street, Sacramento.The museum features 21 restored locomotives and railroad cars, some dating back to 1862. The "Sierra Scene" shows a large scale mockup of a construction scene high in the Sierra Nevada representing Donner Pass circa 1867, featuring the locomotive Gov. Stanford. Other exhibits show how the influence of railroads changed American society, influencing travel, commerce and daily life, as well as the lives of railroaders and the diversity of people who work on railroads. Changing exhibits featuring photography, ephemera, and artifacts from the museum's collection, add depth and incidental information to the overall story of railroad history. The museum has an extensive educational program for elementary students from across the region to help them learn about railroad history using re-enactments, costumed docents, and including train and handcar rides. The roundhouse area of the museum features a rotating display of locomotives and equipment belonging to the museum. When not on display, these items are stored and worked on at the nearby Sacramento Railyards in the remaining buildings that were part of the original Southern Pacific Shop complex. A large 3-rail O-gauge model train layout is also located in the museum. Adjacent to the main museum building is a reconstruction of the 1870s-era Central Pacific Railroad passenger station and freight depot on Front Street, which houses historic and contemporary railroad equipment. In early 2011, the interior remained closed to public use, but is occasionally open for special events. Between April and October, the Sacramento Southern Railroad, operated by the museum, takes passengers on a 40-minute, 6-mile (9.7 km) roundtrip route along the Sacramento River on a portion of the Walnut Grove branch of the former Southern Pacific Railroad. The Sacramento Southern Railroad owns the Walnut Grove Branch right-of-way that extends south from Sacramento along the eastern bank of the Sacramento River. A few miles of track were rebuilt along the levee near Freeport, California as part of a US Army Corps of Engineers project. The CSRRM hopes to one day have a longer excursion line, perhaps as far as Hood, California. At that location the railroad passengers could disembark the train and take a tourist steamboat back up the Sacramento River to Old Sacramento. In 1992, Railtown 1897 in Jamestown began operating under the museum.

Lady Adams Building
Lady Adams Building

Lady Adams Building, is historical building in Sacramento, California. Lady Adams Building is a California Historical Landmark No. 603. Lady Adams Building was built in 1852 for $29,000 ($1 million today) and opened as a store and office building. Lady Adams Building is the oldest building in Old Sacramento. The store specialized in goods from the East Coast of the United States that sailed through the Strait of Magellan in the brigantine sailing ship, Lady Adams. The building architect was Julius Fiedler. The building is at 113 K Street, Sacramento.The Lady Adams Building was as wholesale and import house. Arriving on the Lady Adams in 1849, four immigrants from Germany set up the wholesale store. The wholesale store started by selling good off the ship Lady Adams at the Sacramento River docks as Lady Adams Mercantile Company starting in 1849 to support the California Gold Rush boom. Part of the ships went in to building the K Street Lady Adams Building. Lady Adams Mercantile Co. went bankruptcy in 1861. In 1861 it became the Fogus & Coghill grocery store. The city had a 13-year program in the 1860s and 1870s, to raise the buildings and streets in Sacramento to stop the flooding problem in the city, like the Great Flood of 1862. The Lady Adams Building was raised 15 feet in 1865. In 1868 it became the Mebius & Company Wholesale Grocers. For some year the building was vacant in part of the 1950. The roof collapsed in 1970 from age, but was repaired. For years it has been a Historical Sacramento Evangeline’ store.

What Cheer House (Sacramento, California)
What Cheer House (Sacramento, California)

What Cheer House, also at times called the Sackett Hotel and Grand Hotel, is a historical building in Sacramento, California. What Cheer House is a California Historical Landmark No. 597 listed on May 22, 1957. The What Cheer House was first used as hotel, the Sackett Hotel. The What Cheer House was used for the California State offices in 1855. In the 1870s it was called the Grand Hotel. The What Cheer House is at the southeast corner of Front Street and K Street in Old Sacramento.The What Cheer House supported the California Gold Rush Pioneers, it was built near the Sacramento waterfront and Central Pacific Railroad station. A Pioneer greeting was what cheer, partner?!, thus the What Cheer House name. After the California State offices moved out the What Cheer House became a warehouse for the Sacramento waterfront shipping. Since the What Cheer House has been: Stage Nine Entertainment Store, G.Willikers Toy Emporium, The Vault, California Clothiers, and the Old Fashioned Candy and Confectionery. The City of Sacramento had a 13-year program in the 1860s and 1870s, to raise the buildings and streets in Sacramento to stop the flooding problem in the city, like the Great Flood of 1862. The What Cheer House was raised 15 feet, stopping flooding by the Sacramento River and American River. By the later 1940s and early 1950s What Cheer House was showing her age due to lack of renovation. By 1965 the City of Sacramento set up a plan to renovated and modernize not only the What Cheer House, but much of Old Sacramento. Stage Nine Entertainment, Inc. purchased the What Cheer House in the 1990s.