When was roseville ca founded

More growth came to Roseville Junction when Pacific Fruit Express made the decision to keep all of its refrigerator plants in order to ice the fruit cars in Roseville Junction. Although there was opposition from the railroad, public sentiment won out and Roseville became an incorporated city on April 2, Read below or add a comment A quick note. Like this: Like Loading Cliff Kennedy says:. October 6, at pm. Christina Richter says:. June 29, at am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Walter Fiddyment with his Sunday school class circa Martin A.

Schellhous was born in in Ohio. In he joined others who were gold-seekers, crossing the country by way of the Santa Fe route. He arrived in California in , and left Los Angles on a chartered sailing vessel to take him to San Francisco. With his brother E. Schellhous, they hired a small sailing ship to take them to Sacramento. After purchasing mining equipment and supplies, they struck out for the American River mining country where they soon earned several thousand dollars in gold.

In , Martin returned to Michigan were he married Caroline Ferris and they returned to California where they purchased a ranch in the rich Dry Creek District.

Having brought a number of cattle with him from Michigan he began raising livestock. In later years, Martin starting new ventures in agriculture, by planting a vineyard, orchards and dry crops. Schellhous died in September Thomas S. Dudley was born in Massachusetts in He like many other young adventurers traveled to California to be a part of the gold rush. He arrived in San Francisco by ship in September and like others traveled to the American River area to look for gold.

He soon learned he could make more money in removing the stones than in the actual mining operations. By the end of , he opened a supply store, and in December of he sold his store and moved to Sacramento. There he met and married Eleanor Stuart. Shortly after the marriage he built a home in Sacramento. The next year he decided to go into the hog raising business, and after being in business he discovered that pork being shipped into San Francisco was being sold cheaper than he could raise them.

He soon learned that hogs could be raised in the Dry Creek District for a cheaper price than the imported ones, so he quickly purchased property in the area. Dudley passed away in Sacramento in Zacariah Astill some spell it Zachariah was born in England in He along with his wife Ann, and children, including James who went on to become a local business man in Roseville, settled in the St.

Louis area for three years, before heading West. They traveled to Salt Lake, where one son remained, before heading to California. The family arrived in the Roseville area in At that time a home was taken apart in Folsom, then brought by wagon to the family ranch and rebuilt. Five generations of Astills lived in the home until it was destroyed by fire in December Zacariah spent his entire life farming the land and operating a small blacksmith shop. Because his blacksmith shop was so close to where the new railroad track was being laid, he along with his oxen teams and horses were hired to help build the Central Pacific Railroad through the area.

Zacariah Astill died November His grandson, Walter, would eventually level off one of the pastures to accommodate airplanes landing and taking off from the family ranch. Tobias S. Grider was born in Kentucky in After living in several states, he decided to travel to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He arrived in San Francisco in October of that year, and almost immediately he headed to the gold country.

Spring of found him in the Roseville area where he purchased acres from the government. In Grider sold his ranch to the California Central Railroad which was in the process of building their railroad from Folsom to Lincoln. He then moved to Nevada County where lived for two years. In he returned to Placer County where owned a hotel. Tobias moved his family several more times before settling in Downey. Tobias Grider died June The longest continuously residing family in the Pleasant Grove District is the Fiddyment family.

Their original ancestor, Elizabeth Jane Fiddyment came to California in the early s as a widow, with her baby boy named Walter. Elizabeth Jane remarried, and with her new husband, began a ranching empire in what is now West Roseville.

Over the years Elizabeth Jane outlived a total of three husbands Fiddyment, Hill and Atkinson but she would acquire vast land holdings and would be the largest Placer County tax payer at the time of her death.

At one point the Fiddyment land holdings in Placer County totaled over 10, acres. Walter also owned and operated Fiddyment Block at the corner of Lincoln and Vernon Streets from until While the land has all been sold, the old homestead still stands in West Roseville.

The family ran a flourishing stage stop, hotel and supply point for those traveling along the road.