Kirkwood, Tehama County, California
Vanished town in California, United States
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Kirkwood | |
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  Kirkwood Location in California  Kirkwood Kirkwood (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°51′19″N 122°09′43″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Tehama |
| Elevation | 220 ft (67 m) |
Kirkwood was a town in Tehama County, California, United States 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 parishioners 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]
