The rain began to fall on Dec. 9, 1861. It didn’t relent until hundreds of miles of the Central Valley turned into an inland sea, leaving the city of Sacramento submerged beneath 10 feet of water. The ...
In the winter of 1861-1862 the Great Flood turned Sacramento into an island, killed an estimated 4,000 people and sent the California Legislature packing to San Francisco. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells ...