"My Establishment Will Gain a Great Deal by This Emigration"

So wrote Captain John Sutter to American Consul Thomas Larkin about the many people who came to his fort. The emigration brought blacksmiths, clerks, gunsmiths, farmers and doctors to California in the years before the Gold Rush. By April 1846, there were many American families living in and around Sutter's Fort. The emigration continues today, as the Sutter's Fort Living History Program Volunteers present life as it was in early California.

Saturday, April 2, 2005 from 10AM to 4PM visitors will have the opportunity to talk with the settlers and tradesmen of the fort as if it was April 1846. Re-live the sights, smells and sounds of the past!

Captain Sutter, immigrant families, carpenters, bakers, spinners, trappers, and others, portrayed by the Living History Volunteers, will bring history alive.

Admission fee: $6.00 for adults, $3.00 for children 6 to 16, children five under are free. California State Parks, in cooperation with the Sacramento Historic Sites Association, presents the Sutters Fort Living History Program. Sutter's Fort is located at 2701 L Street, Sacramento. 916-445-4422.