Resources

 Links to include on upcoming website “sacramentohistory.info”  The concept is to provide links in an organized manner (according to topics) to websites which provide information on history of the Greater Sacramento Region.  Below is only a beginning…please feel free to add topics to list (but do in red please so I can recognize the new ones easily).   For any questions or comments please contact Bob LaPerriere at (916) 481-4525 or xtbob@surewest.net       Thanks.

 

SAMPLE WEBPAGES

http://watertownlibrary.org/WebLinks/LINKS_bank.htm

 

 

AGRICULTURAL

 

ARCHITECTURE

Commercial

Home

AssociaTions – AIA

Blogs (under each category) including facebook/social media

ARCHIVES

County – 

Website for City County Archives                                                                                 http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ccl/history/default.as

Links for alot of Sac History                                                                                           http://www.sachistoricalsociety.org/links.cfm

 

State

Private/Educational

 

ARCHIVISTS

 

ASSOCIATIONS

 

AVIATION

BLOGS

CALENDAR EVENTS (Historical)

Sacramento 365 –

In My Comunity

CEMETERIES

Website for PDF of New Helvetia Brochure

http://coroner.saccounty.net/documents/NewHelvetiaBrochure.pdf

List of Sacramento County Cemeteries

http://coroner.saccounty.net/cemeteries.asp

Sacramento County Cemetery Advisory Commission

http://coroner.saccounty.net/sccac.htm

Website for PDF of District Cemetery Brochure

http://coroner.saccounty.net/documents/DistCemBro.pdf

Sacramento Historic City Cemetery

www.oldcitycemetery.com

 

COMMUNICATION-CONNECTIONS

Pony Express

Wells Fargo

CITIES/LOCALITIES

Locke –

DEMOGRAPHICS

http://www.clrsearch.com/Sacramento-Demographics/CA/Population-by-Race-and-Ethnicity

ENTERTAINMENT

ETHNIC/CULTURAL HISTORY

FIRST/SECOND MOST ETHNICALLY DIVERSE CITY

AFRICAN AMERICAN

BASQUE

BRITISH/ENGLISH,IRISH,SCOTTISH,WELSCH

CHINESE

CROATIAN

FILIPINO

FRENCH

GERMAN

HMONG

INDIA/PAKISTAN

ITALIAN

JAPANESE

MEXICAN

NATIVE AMERICAN

PORTUGUESE

SPANISH

THAI

OTHER

 

CALENDAR EVENTS (Historical)

Sacramento 365 –

In My Community

COMMERCE – BUSINESS – TRADE

COMPILATION (HISTORY)

36 pages of Sacramento History by Lance Armstrong as published in Valley Community Newspapers

http://www.valcomnews.com/?cat=6

BENEVOLMENT SOCIETIES

COMMUNICATION

Radio, TV, Newspapers

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA

WINE

BREWERY

 

ENVIRONMENTAL/LAND USE

 

FAIRS & FESTIVALS

 

FAMOUS PEOPLE

 

FAMILY HISTORY

 

FINANCE/BANKING

 

FIREHOUSE HISTORY

FOOD/RESTAURANTS

Food Tours – http://local-food-tours.com/culinary-cultural-experience/

GENEALOGY

Rootsweb – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sacindex.html

GOLD RUSH

 

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

 

LANDMARKS & HISTORICAL MARKERS

 

LAW ENFORCEMENT

LIBRARIES

Public, Private, Education Facility, Corporate, Governmental (Cal Trans etc.)

 

LITERARY

MAPS

MEDICAL

California Medical History Blogspot – http://californiasmedicalhistory.blogspot.com/

SSVMS Museum of Medical History

MEXICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

http://MexicanAmericanDigitalHistory.org

MILITARY

MUSEUMS AND MEMORIALS

SAM (Sacramento Associaton of Museums

www.sacmuseums.org

MUSIC

 

NATIONAL

NATURAL HISTORY

Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Carmichael CA – www.sacnaturecenter.net

NEWSPAPERS (Historic)

VERIDIAN –

Sacramento Union 1980’s – http://www.stevemartarano.com/Martaranos_archives/Welcome.html

OLD SACRAMENTO

ORAL HISTORIES

https://networks.h-net.org/h-oralhist

 

ORGANIZATIONS (HISTORICAL)

PEOPLE OF HISTORICAL INTEREST

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Features amateur photos showing our city in an earlier time.

http://vintagesacramento.com

 

 

PODCASTS

Link Elaine Corn’s (and others?) Capital Radio podcasts

PUBLICATIONS

Pioneers

SCHS

 

 

PRESERVATION

REGIONAL HISTORY – SACRAMENTO COUNTY

 

ELK GROVEhttp://www.echoesofyesterday.net/

RELIGIONS

RESEARCH FACILITIES/ARCHIVES

Website for City County Archive (Center for Sacramento History)                                                                                 http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ccl/history/default.asp

California Statewide Resource Center

California State Library

California State Archives

Sacramento Room – Sacramento Public Library

 

RESOURCES

Multiple links on Sacramento County Historical Society Website: http://www.sachistoricalsociety.org/links.cfm

 

SCHOOLS – EDUCATION

Sacramento County History Day  –  http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ccl/history/exhibits/HistoryDay/

SCIENCE

SPEAKERS

SPORTS

 

STATEWIDE

TOURS

ARCHITECTURAL

WALKING – http://www.sacramentoheritage.org/walking.html

DRIVING

“COMMERCIAL”

UNUSUAL

Sacramento Underground Tour –

Sacramento Historic City Cemetery – www.oldcitycemetery.com

TRANSPORTATION

HORSE

TRAIN

AUTOMOBILE

SHIPS/BOATS

Shipwrecks

http://www.snugharbor.net/steamboat_slough_shipwrecks.htm

WATER

RIVERS

WATER USE

RECLAMATION

RESERVOIRS

 

 

WEATHER (HISTORY)

 

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