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Sacramento became a city due to the efforts of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, and James W. Marshall. There were settlers in the area before this time. The Dutch came in the eighteen twenties. Sacramento grew faster due to the protection of Sutter's Fort, which was established by Sutter in eighteen thirty-nine. During the California Gold Rush, Sacramento was a major distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a terminus for wagon trains, stagecoaches, riverboats, the telegraph, the Pony Express, and the First Transcontinental Railroad. Typical of California informality, Sacramento is referred to by many nicknames. The most common names are Capital City , River City , and the City of Trees . The nicknames most used by those living in Sacramento are Sac, Sactown, or Sacto. The area where Sacramento was originally developed is still in existence as a tourist venue, and is simply named Old Sacramento, or Old Sac. The pioneer John Sutter arrived from Liestal , Switzerland in the Sacramento area with other settlers in August eighteen thirty-nine and established the trading colony and stockade Sutter's Fort in eighteen forty. Sutter's Fort was constructed using labor from local Native American tribes. Sutter received two thousand fruit trees in eighteen forty-seven, which started the agriculture industry in the Sacramento Valley . In eighteen forty-eight, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, a large number of gold-seekers came to the area, increasing the population. John Sutter, Jr. then planned the City of Sacramento , in association with Sam Brannan against the wishes of his father, naming the city after the Sacramento River for commercial reasons. He hired topographical engineer William H. Warner to draft the official layout of the city, which included twenty-six lettered and thirty-one numbered streets. However, bitterness grew between the elder Sutter and his son as Sacramento became an overnight commercial success. Sutter's Fort, Mill and the town of Sutterville , all founded by John Sutter, Sr., and would eventually fail.
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