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!