According to the 1870 census, Rocklin had grown to 542 residents, and the majority of Irish immigrants had forgone mining and were working for the railroad. The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, significantly increasing railroad traffic through the town. The Central Pacific built a roundhouse in 1867. It named the area Rocklin after its granite quarry and used the site as a refueling and water stop. In 1864, the Central Pacific Railroad completed an extension of its track southwest from Newcastle to Secret Ravine. In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act granted the Central Pacific Railroad land near Secret Ravine. Rocklin's history is closely tied to the transcontinental railroad. The area was referred to as Secret Ravine or the "granite quarries at the end of the tracks" as late as 1864. Census counted 440 residents in the area of Secret Ravine, of whom about 16% had been born in Ireland and the majority of whom worked as miners. The granite was hauled out by oxcarts before the arrival of the railroad many years later. Secret Ravine, at the area now at the intersection of Ruhkala Road and Pacific Street, was later mined for granite, some of which was used as the base course of the California Capitol Building the earliest recorded use of the rock was for Fort Mason at San Francisco in 1855. The piles of dredger tailings are still obvious today, between Roseville and Loomis southeast of Interstate 80. ĭuring the 1850s, miners sluiced streams and rivers, including Secret Ravine, which runs through Rocklin. Deprived of traditional foodstuffs, homesites and hunting grounds by the emigrants, the Nisenan were among the earliest California Indian tribes to disappear. The group saw many Maidu villages along the river banks. Explorer Jedediah Smith and a large party of American fur trappers crossed the Sacramento Valley in April 1827. History īefore the California Gold Rush, the Nisenan Maidu occupied both permanent villages and temporary summer shelters along the rivers and streams that miners sifted, sluiced, dredged and dammed to remove the gold. The California Department of Finance placed the 2019 population at 68,823. As of the 2010 census, Rocklin's population was 56,974. Besides Roseville, it shares borders with Granite Bay, Loomis and Lincoln. Rocklin is a city in Placer County, California, about 22 miles (35 km) from Sacramento, and about 6.1 miles (9.8 km) northeast of Roseville in the Sacramento metropolitan area.
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