Sac·ra·men·to

(săk′rə-mĕn′tō)

The capital of California, in the north-central part of the state northeast of San Francisco. The city was founded as a mining camp on John Sutter's land (where gold was discovered in 1848) and became the state capital in 1854. It was named for the Sacramento River, which rises near Mount Shasta and flows about 610 km (380 mi) southward through the fertile Sacramento Valley to an extension of San Francisco Bay.

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Sacramento

(ˌsækrəˈmɛntəʊ)

1. (Placename) an inland port in N central California, capital of the state at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers: became a boom town in the gold rush of the 1850s. Pop: 445 335 (2003 est)

2. (Placename) a river in N California, flowing generally south to San Francisco Bay. Length: 615 km (382 miles)

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Sac•ra•men•to

(ˌsæk rəˈmɛn toʊ)

n.

1. the capital of California, in the central part, on the Sacramento River. 376,243.

2. a river flowing S from N California to San Francisco Bay. 382 mi. (615 km) long.

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Sacramento - a city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California

capital of California

Calif., California, Golden State, CA - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes

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He was speedily ejected from the boarding-house; deposited his portmanteau with a perfect stranger, who did not even catch his name; wandered he knew not where, and was at last hove-to, all standing, in a hospital at Sacramento. There, under the impenetrable ALIAS of the number of his bed, the crapulous being lay for some more days unconscious of all things, and of one thing in particular: that the police were after him.

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In Sacramento, the capital of California, the Grangers had succeeded in maintaining order.

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Hours afterward, in the fires of sunset, where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin tumble their muddy floods together, I took the New York Cut-Off, skimmed across the smooth land-locked water past Black Diamond, on into the San Joaquin, and on to Antioch, where, somewhat sobered and magnificently hungry, I laid alongside a big potato sloop that had a familiar rig.

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Among other offerings, we were permitted to handle the jewelled belt presented to the pugilist by the State of Nevada, a gold brick from the citizens of Sacramento, and a model of himself in solid silver from the Fisticuff Club in New York.

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Sacramento gives us our appropriations and therefore we kowtow to Sacramento, and to the Board of Regents, and to the party press, or to the press of both parties."

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Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries.

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From one of these, a scow-schooner captain who plied up and down the bay and the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, Daughtry had the promise of being engaged as cook and sailor on the schooner Howard.

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Some years afterward I met in Sacramento a man named Morgan, to whom I had a note of introduction from a friend in San Francisco.

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He had communicated by wireless with the army post at Benicia, the telegraph lines were even then being patrolled by soldiers all the way to Sacramento. Once, for one short instant, they had got the Sacramento call, then the wires, somewhere, were cut again.

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There isn't one nearer here than Sacramento; but I reckon we could get a small one by Thursday.

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Sacramento! Solferino!--Soap, you son of a gun!' Dan, if you would let us talk for you, you would never expose your ignorant vulgarity."

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To the left was the mouth of the Sacramento River, to the right the mouth of the San Joaquin.

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