Rockdale’s economy: where we started to present
Thu, 01/19/2023 - 12:00am
Rockdale grew from a sleepy farming and railroad stop to a manufacturing town in the 1950’s when Alcoa started. In the early 2000’s, both Alcoa and the Luminant power plants shut down and the town has not been the same since. Some may call this a negative economic adjustment — you will soon see this was an economic trauma.
