# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-09-08T00:11:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

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On September 7, 1850, Margaret Ann Frink and her husband, Ledyard Frink, arrived in Sacramento City after traveling for 5 months and 7 days that covered 2,418 miles from their home in Martinsville, Indiana to Sacramento, California. They left their home on March 30, 1850 and traveled overland by wagon upon hearing news of gold in California. During their journey, Margaret kept a daily journal. 

Shortly after arriving in Sacramento, the Frinks opened a hotel on K Street between 6th and 7th Streets opposite from the Golden Eagle Hotel. Their small hotel was up and running, unfortunately, just in time for the cholera epidemic to break out in Sacramento in late October 1850.

After the month-long cholera epidemic, the Frinks relocated their hotel one block north to J Street. Mr. Frink bought three dairy cows for $275, and the Frink Hotel began to offer something that no other hotel offered in Sacramento, free milk for their guests. Margaret stated, “[The milk] was a great attraction to men, many of whom had not tasted milk for one or two years…People would come from distant parts of the city to get meals on account of the fresh milk.” 

Not even a year after arriving in Sacramento, the Frinks sold their hotel in August 1851 and focused on their growing dairy herd of 50 cows at their home at M and 8th Streets (just 2 blocks west of where the State Capitol is located today in downtown). They moved from Sacramento in the late 1860s. Margaret passed away on January 16, 1893 at the age of 75 in Oakland. Her travel journal was later published in 1897 and is considered by many historians as one of the best accounts of the California Overland Trail during the Gold Rush. 

Portrait of Margaret Ann Frink from the Sacramento Room Photograph Collection, courtesy of the Sacramento Public Library.

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