State Capital Building.

The Spanish name, "Holy Sacrament," was applied to the Feather River in 1808; it was later assumed that the lower Sacramento was the same stream.
In 1817 the two main rivers of the valley were recorded as Sacramento and San Joaquine rivers, but the course of the former was not identified with the name until the 1830's.
The city was laid out in 1848-49 and named after the river by John A. sutter, Jr., and Sam Brannan. The county, one of the original twenty-seven, was named in 1850.
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