Original Sacramento Bee Building

Something of this one is still here. The Bee began in a two-storey brick building on Third Street in February 1857, and when Interstate 5 was cut through Old Sacramento the building went with the rest of the block. One fragment was left standing, a wooden door in a red brick surround, under the northbound off-ramp and opening onto nothing. It is all that survives of the paper's first home. There is no plaque beside it to say what it is or was.

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

• Western Hotel — steps away
• Pioneer Telegraph Station — steps away
• Adams and Company Building — steps away
• D. O. Mills Bank Building — steps away