Site of China Slough

The lake was fifty acres and forty feet deep, and Sacramento's first Chinese quarter stood on its banks. Laundries, markets, a joss house, shanties built out over the water. In December 1862 the city granted the whole of it to the Central Pacific in exchange for a levee, and the railroad filled it in slowly, as it needed ground, finishing in 1910. Amtrak platforms and a federal courthouse sit on it now, and excavation there turned up what the settlement left behind. Nothing above ground marks the water or the people.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sacramento — 0.3 mi
  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 Pioneer Mutual Volunteer Firehouse — steps away
• Old Sacramento — steps away
• Old Folsom Powerhouse-Sacramento Station A — steps away
• B. F. Hastings Building — steps away