Tours every 30 min, no tours Sat, Sun at 14:30 and 15.
[2010]
[2010]
Underground City
The Historic Old Sacramento Foundation (HOSF), 101 I Street, Old Sacramento, Tel: +1-916-808-7059, Fax +1-916-264-5100. E-mail:
| Location: | Sacramento city centre. Tour check-in: Sacramento History Museum, 101 I Street in Old Sacramento. |
| Open: |
APR to OCT Thu, Fri 11-15, Sat, Sun 11-16:30. Tours every 30 min, no tours Sat, Sun at 14:30 and 15. [2010] |
| Fee: |
Adults USD 17.50, Children USD 12. [2010] |
| Classification: |
Underground City
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| Light: | electric |
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| Guided tours: | D=45min |
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| Address: |
E-mail: The Historic Old Sacramento Foundation (HOSF), 101 I Street, Old Sacramento, Tel: +1-916-808-7059, Fax +1-916-264-5100. E-mail: |
| Last update: | $Date: 2011/12/13 09:11:04 $ |
| JAN-2010 | start of development. | |
| 10-JUL-2010 | opened to the public. |
Historic Old Sacramento offers guided underground tours through the hollow sidewalks below Old Sacramento. Those structures were once at ground level, but during the 1860s and 1870s the sidewalks were raised and the first floor of the buildings became the new ground floor. The reason were regular winter floods of the Sacramento and American rivers in the city, with the raising of the city streets an extensive levee system was put in place. The system works well, there are no floods any more. Many parts of the ground level were filled in, but an enormous system of underground walkways, with old storefronts and sidewalks still exists.
The Historic Old Sacramento Foundation was developing underground tours, financed by the Sacramento City Council with a $185,000 loan. The guides are actors focusing on various topics based on actual events from Old Sacramento history.
Another place where the Sacramento underground is visible, is the record store Records in the basement of 710 K Street. A block-long catacomb, a series of rooms, alcoves and little hallways, which was once the lobby of a hotel is used to store vinyl disc of the 20th century. There are even ghost stories about the place, telling about a young man who was killed in this place.
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