Sacramento, California was first incorporated in 1850. That year would prove to be one of the young cities most harrowing; that it survived that year, let alone the remainder of the 1850's, is astonishing. It's also the reason it acquired the moniker Indomitable City.

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Correction - California was known as Alta California in the pre-American period, not Nueva California, as stated in the show.