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Nueva Helvecia
Nueva Helvecia

Nueva Helvecia is a city in Uruguay....
 is a city in Uruguay.


New Helvetia
Helvetia

File:Zweifranken.jpgFile:Picswiss BS-53-07.jpgHelvetia is the Ancient Rome name for an ancient region of central Europe occupying a plateau between the Swiss Alps and the Jura Mountains....
 (Nueva Helvetia in Spanish), meaning "New Switzerland", was a Mexican-era California settlement.

The Swiss pioneer John Sutter
John Sutter

Johann Augustus Sutter was a Switzerland pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W....
 from Rünenberg
Rünenberg

R?nenberg is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Sissach in the Cantons of Switzerland of Basel-Country in Switzerland....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
, arrived in Mexican Alta California
Alta California

Alta California was formed in 1804 when the Las Californias, then a part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, was divided in two, along a line separating the Franciscan missions in the north from the Dominican Order missions in the south....
 with other settlers in August 1839. He established the agricultural and trading colony and stockade Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Fort

Sutter's Fort State Historic Park is a state-protected park in Sacramento, California which includes Sutter's Fort and the California State Indian Museum....
 as "Nueva Helvetia" in 1840. It is named after Helvetia
Helvetia

File:Zweifranken.jpgFile:Picswiss BS-53-07.jpgHelvetia is the Ancient Rome name for an ancient region of central Europe occupying a plateau between the Swiss Alps and the Jura Mountains....
, the region of Switzerland in which his father was born.






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Nueva Helvecia
Nueva Helvecia

Nueva Helvecia is a city in Uruguay....
 is a city in Uruguay.


New Helvetia
Helvetia

File:Zweifranken.jpgFile:Picswiss BS-53-07.jpgHelvetia is the Ancient Rome name for an ancient region of central Europe occupying a plateau between the Swiss Alps and the Jura Mountains....
 (Nueva Helvetia in Spanish), meaning "New Switzerland", was a Mexican-era California settlement.

The Swiss pioneer John Sutter
John Sutter

Johann Augustus Sutter was a Switzerland pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W....
 from Rünenberg
Rünenberg

R?nenberg is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Sissach in the Cantons of Switzerland of Basel-Country in Switzerland....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
, arrived in Mexican Alta California
Alta California

Alta California was formed in 1804 when the Las Californias, then a part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, was divided in two, along a line separating the Franciscan missions in the north from the Dominican Order missions in the south....
 with other settlers in August 1839. He established the agricultural and trading colony and stockade Sutter's Fort
Sutter's Fort

Sutter's Fort State Historic Park is a state-protected park in Sacramento, California which includes Sutter's Fort and the California State Indian Museum....
 as "Nueva Helvetia" in 1840. It is named after Helvetia
Helvetia

File:Zweifranken.jpgFile:Picswiss BS-53-07.jpgHelvetia is the Ancient Rome name for an ancient region of central Europe occupying a plateau between the Swiss Alps and the Jura Mountains....
, the region of Switzerland in which his father was born. The site is just a few miles east of where his son, John Sutter, Jr. would establish Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the Capital of the United States U.S. state of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County, California. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive California Central Valley, it is the seventh-largest city in California.....
, and is on the eastern edge of Sacramento's current downtown.

Sutter's Fort is preserved as a California State Historic Park.