Rockwood is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 850 at the 2020 census. It is share of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, and located due north of Pennsylvania’s highest peak, Mount Davis, which significantly constricts house travel routing south of the municipality.

Rockwood was initially known as Shaff’s Bridge and subsequently Mineral Point. Philip Wolfersberger built a house in what is now Rockwood in 1856, and he laid out the town in 1857 later Martin Meyers serving as the primary surveyor. John Poister built a hotel in 1860. 1868 proverb the expand of a state office, Henry Werner built a tannery in 1869, and a railroad depot was built in 1871. Philip Stauffer Wolfersberger, a son of the above Philip Wolfersberger, was a ticket agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) and was instrumental in getting the current state of Rockwood to take hold. A view of Mineral Point / Rockwood appeared in a hoard of photographs from along the B&O’s lines that was published in book form in 1872 and digitized by the DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.

The Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad united the town of Somerset following the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad (owned by the B&O) as it passed through Mineral Point / Rockwood. Both the Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad and the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad were completed in 1871; the definite section of the line amid Pittsburgh & Cumberland was completed upon the afternoon of April 10, 1871, with the complete rail beast laid near Forge Bridge, about 3 miles to the west of Mineral Point. There were eight stations located along the Somerset & Mineral Point lineage as it ran northeast along Coxes Creek: Mineral Point, Sames, Baker’s, Milford, Mud Pike Crossing, Roberts, Cantner, and Somerset. Two individuals who were enthusiastic in the founding of Ursina, which had its own small branch railroad supplementary 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. The B&O bought the 10-mile Somerset & Mineral Point Railroad in 1879 for $60,000, knowing that an development of the lineage to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in Cambria County, was quite possible; this further explanation had already traditional legislative praise with session perform no. 321 upon Aug. 12, 1873. The Johnstown & Somerset Railroad followed the Stonycreek valley north-by-northeast from Somerset through Stoystown to Johnstown; it was built in 1881. The result was a rail stock known as the Somerset & Cambria Branch Railroad stretching amongst the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad at Rockwood and the Pennsylvania Railroad at Johnstown. The Somerset & Cambria Branch forward-thinking became known as the S&C Subdivision.

In 1891 the Somerset Stone Company built a branch heritage from the Somerset & Cambria Branch Railroad’s station at Milford east to its operation at Bare Rocks. A tragic accident along this company line on the evening of April 25, 1893, killed several people. A mistake between two trains upon the Pittsburgh & Connellsville Railroad, occurring very nearly three miles east of Rockwood, claimed six lives in November 1894. The Wilson Creek Coal Company, in 1900, constructed a branch railroad off of the Somerset & Cambria Branch; this company line ran from very nearly one mile north of Rockwood to its mining property virtually three miles to the east.