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Walking Tours

Historical Walking Tours! Sign up for a walking tour through our new online form!

Guide to Pocket Watches for Re-Enactors

Now available online here.

 

Tours are available

Spring tour schedule:

Walk-in tours begin in May, every Saturday and Sunday at 11:00am.

Summer tour schedule:

Walk-in tours are available June-August five days a week, Thursday-Monday at 11:00am.

General Information

  • All tours start at the Living History Center, 1101 Second Street, basement level (Corner of 2nd and K Streets)
  • Plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to the beginning of your scheduled tour
  • Private tours and School tours can be scheduled year round with a minimum limit of 4 people per tour.
  • To schedule a tour please call (916) 445-3101 or e-mail janesssa@historicoldsacramento.com

Sacramento City: California's Gold Rush Legacy

Sacramento City comes alive from the perspective of a 1850s personality. Sacramento City: California's Gold Rush Legacy introduces visitors, school groups, and interested locals to Sacramento's fascinating history. A historically attired docent uses the original and reconstructed gold rush era buildings as the backdrop for the tour and describes the town as it was in 1850. From miners, to merchants, politicians, pony express riders, and employees of the transcontinental railroad- Sacramento City: California's Gold Rush Legacy has it all.

About Us

The Old Sacramento Living History Program is a volunteer historical group whose goal is to bring the early days of Sacramento City to life through historical reenactments, vignettes and strolls on the streets of Old Sacramento, California.

We present people from Sacramento between 1849 and 1870, from the Gold Rush to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Visitors to Old Sacramento are likely to encounter us strolling the streets of Old Sacramento on weekends and holidays. We provide tours of the gold-rush city as well as special events.

Our members have developed expertise in costuming, weaponry, domestic arts, crafts, literature, politics, and many other aspects of early Victorian-era life in America.

New members of all ages and ethnic groups are needed.

Give the gift of History!

Gift certificates are available for all historical walking tours of Old Sacramento. Tours are $7 a person and make a unique gift. To purchase a walking tour gift certificate, please call 445-3101 or contact us at Janessa@historicoldsacramento.com .

Looking for new members!

If you love history, acting, socializing, and dressing up, join us! February 2nd from 11-2 new and prospective members are invited to a living history orientation and February 23rd from 10-12 join us for our first class of the New Year. For membership applications please click here.

Architectural Tours: From Canvas to Brick

A new tour presented by the Old Sacramento Living History Program and the Historic Old Sacramento Foundation. The development and expansion of Sacramento from a water-logged tent city to an established city, home of the state capital, is reflected in the varying architecture of Old Sacramento’s buildings. From Canvas to Brick, traces the history of Sacramento from the floods, fires, gold rush, coming of the capital, and the 1960s redevelopment. Grab your cameras, join a tour group, and learn as Sacramento transforms from a tent city to a series of sturdy brick buildings.

Next tours are February 16 and March 15 at 1:00pm. The tour begins at the Living History Center, 1101 Second Street. To sign up for an architectural tour or for more information regarding this tour please call 445-3101

 

 

 

Old Sacramento Living History Program
1002 Second Street Old Sacramento, CA 95814
916 445-3101

janessa@oslhp.net
Greg Tracy, President


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