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all weekends, american history tv is featuring sacramento, california area originally built in 1856 it's now a state historic are. it served as california's governor and senator and is president of the central pacific railroad area he also established stamford university in memory of the on who died of typhoid fever at the age of 15. posted by her comcast cable partners, c-span recently visited many sites showcasing best showcasing the city's history. learn more about sacramento all weekend here on american history tv. quest we are at sutter's fort, a state historic art in sacramento, california. hass a historic site that central buildings that are actually the original adobe building constructed by native

american workers working for john sutter in the 1840's. fort of people have worked and they think that it was a really, endeavor and soderling to this is more of a fortified hacienda. fortified just for protection but it really was an agricultural and industrial complex. inter arrived in california 1839. the spanish and mexicans have tried to make inroads into the interior and have frequently been are pulsed by the california indians who lived here. they were not particularly notndly toward them and did welcome the idea of being forced to go to the missions on the coast. they really resisted for a long time. he got a grant: of his ariana

grande which meant he to agree to settle and hold the territory. settlers and he had to make an agreement that he would give to sellers and start developing the territories. as for settlement here was on application at all. it was an adobe building. the california indians would come in a trade. make alliances with the california people who lived here and get them to be his labor force. early on it have to be very much negotiated.

he did have the california indians in their oral histories will talk about being forced to come to work or sutter. that part of his legacy is being evaluated -- reevaluated. whether he was a rock pioneer or whether it was someone came in and it's like people. 1846, the war between the u.s. and mexico was started. more americans started coming to california after it became a u.s. territory. how itstart looking at might be able to make money by

serving his new american immigrants and one thing that would be to provide lumber for building houses. in order to provide lumber he was going to need a sawmill. here was ais workers man in marshall who -- sutter sent him into the mountains look for a suitable ways to build a sawmill. in the making of that sawmill is checking to see if the water that'slow for ridley when nuggets of gold were seen. he came down and showed it to sutter and said i think there's gold appear this might be a good opportunity sutter try to be

quiet. he was not able to get out that there was gold in them there hills. people arrived in huge numbers. it was the largest mass migration in history. people from all over the world converging on california and of course the x marks the spot on everyone's map was come to sutter's fort. sutter pretty much lost all of -- his industry. all the things he was trying to set up his cattle were slaughtered his sheep were slaughtered his for he sold it off and little bits and pieces.

those people were making money hand over fist. sutter did not seem to be able to get ahead of its and make a good business decision himself. at some pointon started selling lots by the market area. son actually his became the founder of the city of sacramento. for a long time he had a romantic rosy view of what happened here. sutter is a rug figure, the notion that the immigrants who were coming from united date were coming into this empty territory and turning a wilderness into an agricultural wonderland, the reality is before europeans can hear this was one of the most heavily populated areas north of mexico.

there estimates that there are 300,000 california indians living here the population without large. speaking as many as 80 different languages. this was a heavily settled lands. pioneerst a matter of coming and selling land it was people coming and displacing another. of the stories that we tell here in the way we interpret the history, i think as we look to a future in staternia a multicultural -- how do we move forward into the future? and have people of different cultures and different backgrounds learning to live together work together if we cannot address the issues that we have the same question?

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