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Mark Twain was a special news correspondent with The Sacramento Union newspaper in 1866. The transcontinental railroad started in Sacramento. The initial meeting of its financial backers, also known as the “Big Four”—Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins, and railroad designer Theodore Dehone Judah—was held above a hardware store in downtown Sacramento in November 1860. The first synagogue on the Pacific Coast, Temple B’nai Israel, was consecrated in Sacramento in 1952. The Pony Express began its 1,980-mile mail delivery service in 1860 with a journey from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento. It required 200 relay stations, 500 horses and 80 riders to complete the 10-day service. California’s first theater, the Eagle, was built on the Embarcadero in Sacramento. A replica of the Eagle stands today in Old Sacramento. In 1848, gold was discovered just 30 miles east of Sacramento, sparking the California Gold Rush.

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