Roseville
— — a railroad town the valley grew around.
Not only on a wall.
“A Placer County city about sixteen miles northeast of Sacramento, where the foothills start to lift toward the Sierra. The Union Pacific yard at the south edge of town is one of the largest west of the Mississippi and has been the reason the town exists since the line came through in 1864. Old oaks shade the older streets; the new ones run out east toward Rocklin and the granite country. from the studio
Roseville, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Roseville sits in Placer County, California, about sixteen miles northeast of Sacramento at the western edge of the Sierra foothills. The city covers roughly forty-three square miles and the population is near a hundred and fifty thousand, making it the largest city in the county. The land grades up gently from the Sacramento Valley toward the granite belt around Rocklin and Auburn, and the climate is hot-summer Mediterranean, mild and wet in winter, dry from May through October.
The town was first called Junction, named for the crossing of the California Central Railroad and the Central Pacific in 1864. It was renamed Roseville in the late 1860s and grew with the railroad through the early twentieth century. In 1908 Southern Pacific moved its switching operations here from Rocklin, which fixed the city's economic centre for the next century. The Union Pacific J.R. Davis Yard is now one of the largest classification yards in the western United States.
Old Town Roseville runs along Vernon Street and Pacific Street near the rail corridor and has been the focus of a long civic restoration effort. The Carnegie Library building of 1912 still stands on Taylor Street and now houses a local museum. Maidu Regional Park on the east side covers about a hundred and fifty acres with shaded picnic ground and an interpretive centre about the Nisenan people. The drive from downtown Sacramento on Interstate 80 takes about twenty-five minutes outside rush hour.