Site of Old Sacramento

A. T. Andreas's 1882 history places Sacramento in the southeastern part of Phelps County on the high upland prairie, with about seventy-five people and the branches of a country trade well represented, and calls it a thriving place for one so far from a railroad. He lists it among seven post offices in the county, with Rock Falls, Phelps Center, Williamsburg, Industry, Integrity and Highland. A Sacramento post office ran from 1879 until 1944. The name was likely taken from Sacramento, California, according to Fitzpatrick and Link's Nebraska Place-Names.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Kearny State Historical Park — 21 mi
  The 1848 army post on the Platte, built on a strip of Pawnee land bought for $2,000 in goods, where emigrant wagons passed by the thousand and only the cottonwoods outlasted the fort.
• Rowe Sanctuary — 27 mi
  Audubon's sanctuary on the Platte near Gibbon, where the river's sandbars are kept bare so that sandhill cranes, more than a million in the valley each spring, can roost safely at night.

More markers nearby

• First Site of Bethel Lutheran Church and Cemetery — 3.0 mi
• Funk, Nebraska — 3.9 mi
• Phelps County — 5.4 mi
• Walker's Ranch — 6.5 mi