File:Sacramento Second Courthouse 1855.jpg

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1870 Photo of Sacramento Second Courthouse was built in 1855. Also used aa the California State Capitol till 1868. In 1870 the city raised the Sacramento County Courthouse as part of a program to stop flooding. Workers used 400 jack screws to raises the building. Turton and Knox Company was awarded the contact to raise the building 15 feet. The city had a 13 year program, in the 1860s and 1870s, to raise the building and streets in Sacramento to stop the flooding problem the in the city.

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Original publication: California State
Immediate source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDVKP5vHgEM

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1870

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California State
(Life time: 1870 )

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