When most of its population and business moved on with the railroad, the town settled into a lull until the early 1870s, when rich clay deposits of the Ione Formation were discovered nearby. Within a few years, however, more investors were found and the line was extended to Wheatland, in Yuba County, bringing an end to this early stage of Lincoln's development. Īt this point, due to a lack of funds, further construction on the California Central was temporarily halted and Lincoln experienced a small-scale boom as the northern terminus of this new railroad. The completion of the railroad 'changed the appearance of the locality, and breathed into the town the breath of life', birthing possibly the first platted railroad town in California. With the help of the Chinese laborers, the company was able to complete the railroad to Lincoln on October 14, 1861. With the grading on the first division of the road from Folsom completed eighteen miles to Lincoln, track laying began at Folsom on December 30, 1859. At an auction in Sacramento on November 23, 1859, over $4,000 was raised from the sales of lots in Lincoln, ranging from $20 to $400 for each lot. November 1859 advertisement announcing the founding sale of town lots, by Charles Lincoln WilsonĪt Auburn Ravine, where the line makes an elbow and turns northward toward Marysville, a new railway town Lincoln was located by Judah with town lots on sale from Wilson. Grading from Folsom to Marysville commenced in 1858 and was completed up to Grider's Ranch ( Roseville) by 1859.

The CCRR was planned as a rail link between the cities of Marysville and Sacramento via a connection to the Sacramento Valley Railroad in Folsom.

The name Lincoln was conferred in honor of Charles Lincoln Wilson, one of the organizers, a fundraiser, and a management contractor of the California Central Railroad (CCRR). The original townsite was surveyed and laid out in 1859 by Theodore Judah along the proposed line of the California Central Railroad. Lincoln is part of the Sacramento-Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2019 population was estimated to be 48,275. Located ten miles north of Roseville in an area of rapid suburban development, it grew 282 percent between 20, making it the fastest-growing city over 10,000 people in the U.S. Lincoln is a city in Placer County, California, United States, part of the Sacramento metropolitan area.

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