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It was 1839 when Capt. John Sutter—a Swiss emigrant and the beneficiary of a 50,000-acre land grant from the Mexican government—settled at the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers. Sacramento was platted on Sutter's property in 1848—the same year that James Marshall's discovery of gold near the South Fork of the American River inaugurated the great California gold rush. Learn More...