Kirkwood, Tehama County, California

Vanished town in California, United States

39°51′19″N 122°09′43″W / 39.85528°N 122.16194°W / 39.85528; -122.16194

Unincorporated community in California, United States

Kirkwood

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Coordinates: 39°51′19″N 122°09′43″W / 39.85528°N 122.16194°W / 39.85528; -122.16194CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaCountyTehama CountyElevation

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220 ft (67 m)

Kirkwood was a town in Tehama County, California, which survives only as the Kirkwood school district and Kirkwood cemetery today.^[2] It once had a post office and school, and a railway station.^[2] The town was not named Kirkwood (after Samuel J. Kirkwood^[3]) until the railway arrived; the school originally having been named Montgomery School and the property owned by postmaster William Wallace Watkins.^[2] The town grew up around the railway station.^[2]

The Methodist church in the town was built on donated land in 1888, however the landowner claimed that because there was no deed, he in fact owned the church, and the churchpeople would have to pay off a mortgage.^[4]^[2] In response, overnight, when the landowner was away, several community members put log rollers under the church and moved it to another, nearby, lot.^[4]^[2]

Kirkwood was also the location of one of Edgar J. De Pue's 15 warehouses in California.^[3]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kirkwood, Tehama County, California
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hislop & Hughes 2007, p. 28.
^ ^a ^b Smith 2016, p. 96.
^ ^a ^b Smith 2016, p. 68.

Sources

Hislop, Donald L.; Hughes, Benjamin M. (2007). Tehama County Place Names. Red Bluff, California.
Smith, Josie (2016). Tehama County. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781540201430.