Sacrmento History Alliance Inc

The Historic Education Program is designed to broaden the historic experience for visitors to Old Sacramento. This includes self-guided tour booklets, informative signs near the Sacramento River, historical scripts for horse-carriage drivers and period dress for the horse-carriage drivers. The program works with the City of Sacramento in the creation of a newsletter and web site to inform the general public of Sacramento's history during the period 1849 to 1870. A history summer camp is provided for children ages 8-12 years of age and during the academic school year School Groups are provided educational programs which cover a variety of historical topics related to early California history. Adult Groups are also provided educational programs which cover similar historical topics mentioned above.

The Old Sacramento Underground Tours Program was added to enhance and broaden the historic experience for visitors to the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Guided tours are provided to visitors who are given an introduction to early Sacramento and then are escorted beneath several Old Sacramento historic buildings to see excavated building foundations, exposed brick retaining walls, and Sacramento's famous "hollow sidewalks". In prior fiscal years, expenditures were incurred in order to make structural and safety improvements to Old Sacramento Historic Buildings, construct pedestrian walkways, install lighting fixtures, and improve handicap accessibility to the historic buildings. Patronage of The Old Sacramento Underground Tours Program was well received and served approximately 16,500 visitors in the current fiscal year.