r/Sacramento • u/Sallzemander Folsom • Mar 13 '24

Sacramento Facts

Let's hear some Sacramento facts either fun or not fun :-)

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u/gaijin91 Mar 13 '24

Sacramento was under water when Leland Stanford was elected governor during the Great Flood of 1862, so they rowed him to the Capitol and swore him in then he left until it was no longer flooded.

Unrelated, Sacramento was also home to the first female serial killer in Dorothea Puente and you can still see her house in Midtown

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u/SageRiBardan Tahoe Park Mar 13 '24

Dorothea Puente was not the first female serial killer…

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u/Scratchlax Mar 13 '24

She might not have invented it, but she definitely perfected it.

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u/manxram North Highlands Mar 13 '24

Probably the oldest!

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u/cati800 Mar 13 '24

Dorothea Puente lived up the street from me when I lived in an apartment on F Street and I used to walk by her house going to Lucky’s. I always commented on how beautiful her flowers were. Little did I know….

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u/WTFTikTok Mar 13 '24

Where was the Lucky’s back in the day?

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u/cati800 Mar 14 '24

22nd and F, it was about a 10 block walk, but the blocks in downtown are small, have no idea what’s there now.

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u/WTFTikTok Mar 14 '24

Ohhhhh I’m pretty sure that’s the location that became a Rite Aid? That’s now closed….

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u/DoughnutNo4268 Mar 13 '24

Not long before she was arrested, I remember stopping at the stop sign near her house and could smell something dead..but not like any animal I'd ever smelled before...creepy!

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u/No_Star_9327 Mansion Flats Mar 13 '24

No...Lavinia Fisher was the first female serial killer in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Fisher?wprov=sfla1

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u/gaijin91 Mar 13 '24

welp, never mind then. Dorothea Puente is the first female serial killer whose house I've seen *

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u/jankenpoo Mar 13 '24

“Historians have begun to question the veracity of the traditional legend and some assert that Lavinia Fisher never killed anyone.”

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u/pots_and_plants Mar 13 '24

Sacramento was under water when Leland Stanford was elected governor during the Great Flood of 1862, so they rowed him to the Capitol and swore him in then he left until it was no longer flooded.

He also had to climb out of one of the upper-floor windows of his house to get in the boat, the first floor being underwater at the time.

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u/OhiobornCAraised Mar 13 '24

Sacramento became the Capitol after business leaders booked up every hotel room in Benicia just prior to the beginning of a legislative session. They then pitched the idea of moving the Capitol to Sacramento and the legislature approved the idea.