There’s more to California than Hollywood and Disneyland. Visit these 5 outstanding attractions on your next trip to learn about culture, arts and history. | The Sacramento Bee

64K views · 868 reactions | The California State Fair starts up again on Friday! We got a little sneak peek today of some of this year's attractions. | CBS13 CBS Sacramento | Facebook

While at the waterfront in Old Sacramento, Shawn discussed how Sacramento grew as the closest major city to the gold fields during the California Gold Rush and how it was a transportation hub for steamboats and stage lines transporting gold hopefuls and supplies. Shawn also notes the status of the Sacramento River and how it is much lower than it was two weeks ago. #onthisday #todayinhistory #goldrush #SacHistoryMuseum #sacramento #museum #history #oldsacramento | Sacramento History Museum

January 21st is Squirrel Appreciation Day! This day honors the small critter who scurries from plant to tree and is a good distraction for dogs when out on a walk. For today, we took a different approach to print the only squirrel related items in our print shop at the Sacramento History Museum. It helps that we received several months ago a package in the mail from one of our followers in Nevada, who found these cuts being thrown away many many years ago from the California Department of Food a

What was planned to be a planned carriage ride became an expedition by rowboat for Leland Stanford on the morning of January 10, 1862 to get to the State Capitol at 7th and I Streets from his mansion at 8th and N Streets for his inauguration as the 8th Governor of California. In this video, Shawn discusses this historic day during one of the worst floods in Sacramento’s history. This video was filmed on location at the Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park, the location of the former Count