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SUTTERS FORT Where the California dream started
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By DENNIS WYATT 209 Living SACRAMENTO — The cradle of modern-day California civilization is not San Francisco or Los Angeles. It’s Sacramento, or more precisely, Sutter’s Fort. John Sutter’s desire for two things set the stage for California to balloon from 92,597 residents in 1860 — the federal Census did not count Native American Indians at the time — to being on the cusp of 40 million residents today.