May 12 2009
Westward Ho the Wagons: Making Tracks to Sutter’s Fort
Sutter's Fort
On Saturday, May 16, 2009, from 10:00AM to 5:00PM you can relive the daily activities of early emigrants and pioneers in the 1840s when agriculture and frontier lifestyles defined the Sacramento Lifestyle. At Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park located in midtown Sacramento between K and L Streets and 26th and 28th Streets.
Experience the lives of these hearty and adventurous people as a guide demonstrates crafts and activities of the past. Visitors will experience militia drill, smell food cooking in the historic kitchen and bakery, see the blacksmith at his anvil, and the carpenter in his shop. This frontier outpost was the center of life in the Sacramento Valley before the Gold Rush.
So let’s circle up the wagons and spend the day at Sutter’s Fort.
This isn’t something I would normally think of to do, but it actually looks fun and different. I’m thinking of going. It will make me appreciate all the great technology we have now. Thank goodness for cell phones. I don’t know how people lived back then without cell phones, internet, cars, and tvs.
I AM STUDYING FRONTIER FORTS NOW AND THIS WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE -AGE 14
THIS WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE IT REALLY HELPED!
Marissa, did you go and was it interesting? I didn’t make it.