Sutterville

Sutter had Lansford Hastings and John Bidwell lay this townsite out in 1844 on a low bluff two miles below his embarcadero, and paid them in lots. The bluff was the point. It stood above the water that drowned Sacramento in 1850, 1852 and 1862, and after each flood the city talked about moving here and never did. Commerce stayed at the landing. Sutterville's last building came down in 1952. No state plaque marks the town; the bronze was placed by the Clampers for the brewery that outlived it.

What the plaque says

Site of a two story brick building built for Robert H. Vance of San Francisco in 1853. One of five brick structures erected that year, it was first occupied as a store. Almost coincident with the founding of Camp Union in 1861, it was taken over by Martin Arenz for a brewery and operated until after 1880. It ended up as a rental hall and was razed in 1952. But for ninety years was called The Sutterville Brewery. It was Sutterville's last remaining building. Dedicated by the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, New Helvetia Chapter No. 5, August 6, 1983

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sacramento — 3.0 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

• Camp Union, Sutterville — steps away
• Sacramento City Cemetery — 1.8 mi
• California's First Passenger Railroad — 2.5 mi
• Stanford-Lathrop Home — 2.7 mi