Editing Rockwood, Pennsylvania (section)

===Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad / Somerset & Cambria Branch / Rockwood & Johnstown Line===
[[File:Map of Rockwood, Pennsylvania, area from 1915 Somerset County Public Road Map by Ralph C Benedict and Gustave P Strum.jpg|thumb|left|Rockwood, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1915]]
The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad connected the town of [[Somerset, Pennsylvania|Somerset]] with the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad (owned by the B&O) as it passed through Mineral Point / Rockwood.<ref name="WatermanWatkins2">{{cite book|title=History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/pa-bedford-somerset-fulton-1884-waterman/page/n180/|year=1884|publisher=Waterman, Watkins & Co.|location=Chicago|page=180}}</ref> (The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad is labelled as the Rockwood & Johnstown Line on the accompanying section of Benedict & Strum's 1915 Somerset County public road map). Both the Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad were completed in 1871;<ref name="PATrailHistory">{{cite book|last=Treese|first=Lorett|title=Somerset Historical Center: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide|year=2004|publisher=Stackpole Books|location=Mechanicsburg, PA|page=15}}</ref> the final section of the line between Pittsburgh & Cumberland was completed on the afternoon of April 10, 1871,<ref name="BaerChristopherT">{{cite web |last1=Baer |first1=Christopher T. |title=A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors, and Its Historical Context: 1871 |url=http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1871.pdf |publisher=Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society |access-date=January 23, 2021}}</ref> with the final rail being laid near Forge Bridge, about 3 miles to the west of Mineral Point.<ref name="WatermanWatkins2" /><ref>{{cite news | title=Pittsburgh Secures Direct Railroad Communication with Baltimore | newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=April 11, 1871 | access-date=October 16, 2020 | url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014064/1871-04-11/ed-1/seq-1.pdf }}</ref> There were eight stations located along the Somerset & Mineral Point line as it ran northeast along Coxes Creek: Mineral Point, Sames, Baker's, Milford, Mud Pike Crossing, Roberts, Cantner, and Somerset.<ref name="SecondGeologicalSurvey">{{cite book|last=Platt & Platt|first=Franklin & W.G.|title=Report of Progress in the Cambria and Somerset District of the Bituminous Coal-Fields of Western Pennsylvania. Part II: Somerset|url=https://archive.org/details/reportofprogress00plat_3/page/n23/|year=1877|publisher=Board of Commissioners, Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania|location=Harrisburg, PA|page=xvi}}</ref> Two individuals who were involved in the founding of [[Ursina, Pennsylvania|Ursina]], which had its own small branch railroad further south in Somerset County, were officers of the Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad in 1873: William J. Baer was President and H.L. Baer was Secretary.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poor|first=Henry V.|title=Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1873-74|year=1873|publisher=H.V. & H.W. Poor|location=New York|page=506}}</ref> The B&O bought the 10-mile Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad in 1879 for $60,000, knowing that an extension of the line to [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]], in [[Cambria County, Pennsylvania|Cambria County]], was quite possible;<ref name="CommercialFinancial">{{cite news|title=Baltimore & Ohio|url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/1339/item/528455/content/pdf/cfc_18790906_1|newspaper=[[Commercial & Financial Chronicle]], Vol. 29, No. 741|date=September 6, 1879|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref> this extension had already received legislative approval with session law no. 321 on Aug. 12, 1873.<ref name="ConstitutionLaws">{{cite book|title=Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Also Laws of the General Assembly of Said Commonwealth Passed at the Session of 1874, in the Ninety-Eighth Year of Independence|url=https://archive.org/details/lawsenactedinge30unkngoog/page/n434/|year=1874|publisher=Benjamin Singerly|location=Harrisburg, PA|pages=432–433}}</ref> The Johnstown & Somerset Railroad followed the [[Stonycreek River|Stonycreek valley]] north-by-northeast from Somerset through [[Stoystown, Pennsylvania|Stoystown]] to Johnstown;<ref name="WatermanWatkins2" /> it was built in 1881.<ref name="PATrailHistory" /> The result was a rail line known as the Somerset & Cambria Branch Railroad stretching between the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad at Rockwood and the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] at Johnstown.<ref name="WatermanWatkins2" /> The Somerset & Cambria Branch later became known as the [[S&C Subdivision]].