Sacramento County Historical Society Presents: Sacramento's Underground, a presentation by Heather Downey Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: 5380 Elvas Avenue (Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society Building), Sacramento All Ages--Open to the Public Before the long-anticipated Underground Tours kick off this summer in Old Sacramento, SCHS will host a talk about the origins and significance of the city’s underground sidewalks and raised streets. Sacramento is the only city in California with raised streets and the lingering architectural features known as the “underground.” On the surface, the raising of Sacramento’s business district offers accounts of misha

This Wednesday, August 5, Sacramento's Preservation Commission will hear an update on the "Underground Sidewalks" survey project. This survey has explored much of Sacramento's surviving underground sidewalk structures, and is preparing a detailed report on their current condition and historic context. An earlier meeting, held in March, outlined what the survey would do(sacramentopress.com/headline/5128/City_Will_Survey_Underground_Sidewalks) and this meeting will present the initial findings of the survey team and report their progress. The final report on the underground sidewalks should be completed by September of this year. The meeting will be held at Sacramento's City Hall, 915 I Str

Imagine walking through a series of underground tunnels, skylights from the sunny streets above pouring in ambient glow. Citizens hurriedly walk across the glass skylights above, going about their modern-day business, oblivious to the group of people underground viewing architecture, photographs and artifacts more than a hundred years old.  This occurred recently while surveyors walked into a number of hollow sidewalks underneath Sacramento streets, and one day, more might be able to view this buried historical treasure.  William Burg recently wrote this article on Sacramento Press about the City's plan to survey underground sidewalks in Sacramento . The goal of the survey was "to ident

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Time: 5:30-7:30 Location: Historic City Hall, 2nd Floor Hearing Room, 915 I Street On Tuesday, March 31, the city of Sacramento invites downtown property owners and community members to a Public Workshop to find out about the Raised Streets-Hollow Sidewalks Historic Survey. Join the Public Workshop, learn about the survey and ask questions. ----------------------- This survey, funded by a local nonprofit and a matching state grant, is intended to document all of the surviving "Underground Sidewalk" spaces in downtown Sacramento. In the 1860s and 1870s, Sacramento's Board of Trustees undertook a project to raise downtown Sacramento's streets above flood leve