Present Day
The original building has been restored with reconstructed period furnishings and exhibits. The interior includes a reconstruction of the building’s original floor with ponderosa pine. The desks, four of which are from the 1850s or earlier, are furnished with a candlestick, a 19th century newspaper, a quill pen, blotting sand, a spitoon, and a top hat.
The historic park is located at 115 West G Street in Benicia, a city in the northern San Francisco Bay Area between San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay.
On February 16, 2000, the California State Legislature met in a symbolic session to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Legislature's first meeting.
Read more about this topic: Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
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“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”
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