Eagle Theater

The theatre was made out of ships. Timbers and canvas came off vessels abandoned at San Francisco by crews who had gone to the diggings, and in 1849 they were put up here as the first building in California raised to be a theatre. It held three hundred and fifty on the floor and fifty in a balcony reached by an outside ladder. The flood of January 1850 destroyed it and the company left for San Francisco. A plank dug up in 1972 is why a reproduction stands here now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sacramento — steps away
  The Gold Rush river port that became the state capital, and jacked itself ten feet into the air to stop drowning.

More markers nearby

• Site of Home of Newton Booth — steps away
• Vernon-Brannan House — steps away
• Site of Sacramento Union — steps away
• B. F. Hastings Building — steps away