Placer County Seals a Message to the Future

Oct 20, 2026 11:19AM ● By Sara Jackson, photos by Sara Jackson

Seventy-five years from now, Placer County residents will have an unusual opportunity to look back at life in 2026, through an iPhone, a flake of gold, government records, photographs, toys, handwritten letters and other pieces of everyday life carefully preserved inside a 19th-century safe.