By the following year, many substantial log buildings housed stores and saloons that created the earliest community in the Boundary.

In the interim, John Carmichael Haynes, his deputy, arrived in October 1860 to establish the first customs post outside the colonial capital of New Westminster.

[4] The westward construction of the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway (VV& E), which followed Myers Creek a couple of miles south during 1905, offered no benefit to the settlement.

[4] Immediately adjacent to the lower few kilometres of Highway 33 were the Riverside and Imperial Mines, where claims began in the late 1890s.

[15][16] Since 1972, several operators have quarried dolomite for crushing into sparkling white gravel for agricultural, landscaping and decorative purposes.

[18] Rock Creek was featured on the historical television documentary series Gold Trails and Ghost Towns, Season 3, Episode 8.