Editor’s note: In last week’s column, Gary Day explained how Rocklin Hose Company No. 1 employed a fire bell located near City Hall to alert the department to fire. A ...
In the early 1890s, demand for Rocklin’s light-gray granite building stone grew steadily and Rocklin’s quarries were at peak activity. Rocklin’s railro ...
Historical community members are not satisfied with the latest plan to partially save the Big Gun Quarry on Pacific Street from a state-mandated sale.
The ...
The Rocklin Historical Society hosted a dramatized historical tour of the Rocklin Cemetery Saturday and Sunday, featuring several "apparitional actors" playing the parts ...
Join the Rocklin Historical Society for some Halloween fun as they tour the Rocklin Cemetery and resurrect some of Rocklin’s most famous deceased citizens.
On the af ...
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part series on Joel Parker Whitney’s coyote. Read the first here.
Joel Parker Whitney published this article in ...
Joel Parker Whitney published this article in the Sportsmen’s Review of Cincinnati in 1904.
He pasted it into his diary, where Jean Day discovered it earlier this year. ...
Union Pacific Railroad Steam Locomotive No. 844 thundered through Rocklin Thursday afternoon, making its way to Sacramento as part of UP's 150th anniversary celebration.
The train ...
Western Rocklin covers the southern 12,000 acres of the Spring Valley Ranch of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Boston businessman George Whitney started the ranch in 1856 a ...
Rocklin artist Ken Maddex and his wife, Jill, were the center of last week’s celebration marking the completion of the Rocklin landmarks mural on the exterior of the Blue Moose D ...
