History

Old library, Carnegie Museum approaching 100-year landmark

With the original Roseville Library approaching its 100th birthday, the city?s historical society is planning a major anniversary party. It is also reaching out to the public to ma ...

Library’s centennial approaching

The Roseville Historical Society is making plans for the Centennial Celebration of the original City of Roseville’s Public Library building. By 1906, when the railroad came to Ro ...

Fashion show commemorates women's suffrage

It’s been 100 years since women were given the right to vote.And members of the Women Democrat of Placer County have planned a celebration to commemorate this historic event. ...

Media Life: James Taylor’s virtuoso sideman on tap for Auburn gig

Auburn is getting one of the good ones June 3. Guitar player Michael Landau will be bringing not only his three-piece band to the State Theater but also a ton of studio and back-u ...

Train explosion 38 years later

The curator of the Carnegie Museum spends her days keeping the history of Roseville alive. And Phoebe Astill has no problem recalling April 28, 1973, a day that shaped the modern ...

Korean War veteran honored

Jim Berg has played bugle at more than 900 military funerals during the past 30 years, which is no small feat. The 77-year-old bugler donates his time and energy to pay respect to ...

Widow of WWII plane crash survivor will fulfill last wish

Tom Parker was the last one of his kind. He was the keeper of a story about eight men who survived their plane being shot down during World War II. The last living member of a gro ...

‘Forgotten Patriots’ remembered

Residents researching African American and American Indian ancestors will have a new resource to use. Roseville’s Gold Trail Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ...

Book chronicles local construction milestones

Placer County area landmarks are featured as parts of history in a recently published book. “Breaking Ground: The History of Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3” tells the 7 ...