Drawbridge, California
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Drawbridge is an abandoned hunting village located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay on Station Island, in an unincorporated portion of Alameda County, California, United States. It has been a ghost town since 1979 and is slowly sinking into the marshlands.
Drawbridge was created by the narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad on Station Island in 1876 and consisted of one small cabin for the operator of the railroad's two drawbridges crossing Mud Creek Slough and Coyote Creek Slough to connect Newark with Alviso and San Jose. At one time 10 passenger trains stopped there per day, five going north and five going south. The drawbridges were removed long ago. The only path leading into Drawbridge is the Southern Pacific Railroad track.
For years after the turn bridge drawbridges were removed and most of the residents had left, the San Jose Mercury News had incorrectly reported that the town was a ghost town and that the residents left valuables behind. As a result, the people still living there had their homes vandalized [1].The town's last resident is said to have left in 1979. Drawbridge is now part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge[2][3] and is no longer open to the public due to restoration efforts.
[edit] Notes
- ^ San Jose Underbelly, "Drawbridge Lowdown", accessed October 12, 2007
- ^ U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Drawbridge, CA: Returning the Tide, September 2003, pdf,accessed June 3, 2007
- ^ Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, John Steiner, Tideline Newsletter, "Drawbridge: A Ghost Town Revisited," pdf, nd,accessed June 3, 2007
[edit] External links
- Drawbridge, California - A Hand-Me-Down History
- Drawbridge, California - A ghost town
- Drawbridge, California - A photo essay by Sasha Malchik
- Islands of the San Francisco Bay, Part 2
- Drawbridge, CA Re-turning the Tide by US Fish and Wildlife Service
- Alviso: Town and Slough
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