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Sutter's Fort and New Helvetia
1839
Sacramento, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A Swiss debtor talked the Mexican governor into 48,000 acres and built an adobe fort worked largely by Native labour under conditions close to slavery. It was the first non-Native settlement in the Central Valley, the rescue base for the Donner Party, and gold on his own sawmill stream ruined him, because his workers all left and squatters took the land.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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