Site of Congregational Church

The congregation is older than the building, older than the state, and it still meets a mile from here. A small group of men voted it into being in a one-room schoolhouse at Third and I in September 1849, most of them Swiss and German settlers from Sutter's Fort, with Joseph Benton as their pastor for the next fourteen years. They laid a cornerstone on this lot in 1854 and moved on again in 1926. What the landmark marks is an address the church left, and an office building stands on it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sacramento — 0.4 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 First and Second State Capitols at Sacramento — steps away
• Old Folsom Powerhouse-Sacramento Station A — steps away
• Site of China Slough — steps away
• Site of First African Methodist Episcopal Church on the Pacific Coast — steps away