Elk Grove, CA news and local guide

Elk Grove was founded in 1850 as a stage stop for travelers from Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, when James Hall opened the Elk Grove Hotel and Stage Stop. He named it for the elk antlers he found in the groves nearby and for the town of the same name in Missouri where he had lived. In 1868 the Western Division of the Central Pacific Railroad came through about a mile east, and another Elk Grove Hotel was built at the new site. For more than a century Elk Grove stayed a small farming community. In the late 1980s suburban developments began to rise, especially to the north near Sacramento, serving Sacramento workers and Bay Area commuters, and the town grew rapidly. Elk Grove incorporated as a city on July 1, 2000, and in 2004 and 2005 it was declared the fastest-growing city in the United States. Apple built iMac computers there until about 2002, and after that work moved overseas in 2004 the plant became Apple's Elk Grove campus, a center for its AppleCare support. Sources Wikipedia: Elk Grove, California