New Helvetia

{{Unreferenced stub|auto=yes|date=December 2009}} :''[[Nueva Helvecia]] is a city in Uruguay.'' '''New [[Helvetia]]''' ('''Nueva Helvetia''' in Spanish), meaning "New Switzerland", was a Mexican-era California settlement. The Swiss pioneer [[John Sutter]] arrived in Mexican [[Alta California]] with other settlers in August 1839. He established the agricultural and trading colony and stockade [[Sutter's Fort]] as "Nueva Helvetia" in 1840. The site is just a few miles east of where his son, [[John Sutter, Jr.]] would establish [[Sacramento, California]], and is on the eastern edge of Sacramento's current downtown. Sutter's Fort is preserved as a California State Historic Park. {{Coord missing|Sacramento County, California}}