Old Sacramento State Historic Park

However, the Fort was some distance from the Sacramento River, which was the main means of transport to the coast of California, and the area that would become the modern city developed along the waterfront.

A large effort was made to secure the area's future as an outdoor living history center similar to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

[3] Today, the Old Sacramento Historic District covers the area between the river frontage and Interstate 5, between I Street and the Capitol Mall.

The State Historic Park comprises about a third of the total acreage of the district including half of the waterfront, a large grassy area and railroad features.

A historic sternwheel riverboat, the Delta King, is moored in the river and serves as a hotel, restaurant and theater.

Old Sac's regular corps of costumed docents is supplemented by extra volunteers and professional reenactors to recreate life in Sacramento as it was in the mid to late 1800s.

This building is to the right of the Orleans Hotel, on 2nd Street in Old Sacramento. The decorative wrought iron balconies, evenly spaced full height windows, and narrow ground-floor doors are characteristic of the Architecture of Andalusia in Southern Spain, as well as most of Spain's colonies in the Americas.
Birch Building on 2nd Street
Historical drawing of Orleans Hotel.
The Union Hotel, Birch Building, and Orleans Hotel (recently reconstructed)
Theodore Judah plaque in Old Sacramento