New Helvetia Cemetery, initially named Sutter Fort Burying Ground, was a cemetery founded in c. 1845 and closed in 1912, formerly located at the northeast corner of Alhambra Boulevard and J Street (present-day 924 Alhambra Boulevard) in the East Sacramento neighborhood of Sacramento, California.

[2][6][7][8] The name New Helvetia (or New Switzerland) was also used by Sutter for a 19th-century Alta California settlement (part of present-day East Sacramento) founded in August 1839.

[2] This land often flooded so buried bodies were often moved and reinterred to Sacramento Historic City Cemetery and the records were not often kept.

[6] One of the first recorded burials was Major Cloud, a paymaster in the United States Army who was fatally injured in a fall from his horse in 1847 near Sutter's Fort.

[3] On April 29, 1861, a statute of the State of California (number CCXLIII) gave permission to disinter the early burials from this cemetery, in order to be "laid out and arranged in a proper manner".

[19] On February 2, 1959, Sutter Junior High School (previously located at 18th Avenue and K Street) opened for classes in its new building atop the old cemetery grounds.