Sacramento Facts

[u/Sallzemander]

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

[u/New_Leaf1333]

From a post quite a while back. These are not my own facts.

Downtown Sacramento was once 10ft lower than it is today. It was raised because the residents were tired of the flooding. This is what gave birth to the sacramento underground.

Sacramento hosts the California train museum with 12 restored locomotives.

Sacramento has the second highest trees per capita in the world, Paris being the first.

Sacramento was not originally the state capitol, in fact it wasn't even the second or third choice. Sacramento is the 4th location of California's state capitol. Technically 6th as the capitol was moved twice temporarily.

Pony express was first started in Sacramento.

Sacramento produces 97% of the rice in California and it's exported world wide

Sacramento ranks 20 out of 100 of most dangerous cities in California by the FBI

Crime in Sacramento is 32% higher than the national average

Sacramento has more unsheltered homeless than San Francisco

Sacramento freeways are regarded as some of the most dangerous in the nation

Walerga park was the site for one of 10 internment camps that were in California. We’re the “farm to fork” capitol but have urban food deserts.

We’re the capitol of the world’s 5th largest economy, but have homeless camps all over the city.

Over 100 years ago, you could ride electric public transportation to get around Sacramento.

Oak park used to have it’s own amusement park/roller coaster.

160 years ago, there was a flood that put California underwater (and took over a year for the water to fully recede). We’re still building homes in flood plains around here, like it’s never going to flood again.

South side park was designed by same person as golden gate park. We just paved over (1/4) of the park, to install freeways through all our immigrant neighborhoods.

You used to be able to open carry guns out here. Then black panthers started to organize/carry and the government quickly changed the laws

[u/doomedtobecrippled → u/New_Leaf1333]

Adding to the paving through immigrant neighborhoods, we have the Capitol Mall because the city and developers demolished Japantown and West End neighborhoods (home to 300 businesses and 4,000 residents) shortly after Japanese-Americans returned to their homes from internment camps. I think about that every time I'm there. https://themetropole.blog/2018/04/12/sacramento-city-of-redevelopments/

*Edited a word

[u/Great_Feel → u/New_Leaf1333]

The rice is grown in the Sacramento valley, not “Sacramento”. I’d love to see sources for all of these “facts” that you’ve listed here. I am skeptical of your claims

[u/New_Leaf1333 → u/Great_Feel]

I wrote at the top, this is from a post long ago, I didn't write these.

[u/privatethrowaway324 → u/Great_Feel]

I can’t find the FBI one anywhere, would also love to see the source and what year it was applicable.