06/17/2025
This Saturday, June 21st, Heritage trail turns up at three great museums!
Loomis Basin Historical Society at the Loomis Library
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
6050 Library Dr., Loomis
www.loomisbasinhistory.org
View photos and exhibits on Loomis Basin pioneers, vintage clothing, household items, and life on the fruit ranch. Watch a video featuring historical footage of fruit packing in the 1930s. See a special display on Japanese American families, presented by the Still Standing Guard Committee. Find your own family’s history in the genealogy book collection with help from the Placer County Genealogical Society.
Griffith Quarry Museum
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Corner of Taylor and Rock Springs Roads, Penryn
530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
Explore exhibits on granite quarrying, the Penryn Granite Works business, the history of Penryn, and the Griffith Family. Visitors can take a guided tour of the historic Quarry Park, offered at 8:30 am, or walk the grounds throughout the day by following provided maps and interpretive signs.
Rocklin History Museum
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
3895 Rocklin Road, Rocklin
916-624-3464 (leave a message, please.)
www.rocklinhistorical.org
Home of Rocks, Rails and Ranches. View exhibits featuring Rocklin’s pioneer families developing the local granite quarrying industry; building and working the Transcontinental Railroad; and dairy and orchard farming and ranching. Current temporary exhibit features Rocklin at Play: Sports and Recreation Through The Years - including the 17 years the 49ers summer training camp was at Sierra College Campus, Rocklin.
Experience a special granite splitting demonstration on Saturday, June 21st at 11:00 a.m.
