W.L. Perkins Warehouse

A brick freight warehouse and depot was constructed on approximately this site in April 1860. Measuring 30 feet by 100 feet, it was leased by W. L. Perkins, a merchant specializing in freight. The building stored and transferred commercial goods transported between Folsom and Sacramento by the Sacramento Valley Railroad, which connected San Francisco and Sacramento to the mines of the Sierra Nevada. The Perkins freight warehouse and depot was torn down in February 1897, when a freight room was added to the east end of the passenger depot. That combination passenger freight depot was destroyed by fire in 1913 and was replaced a year later by the present depot.

Folsom, California · United States