Kirkwood was a town in
Tehama County, California, which survives only as the Kirkwood school district and Kirkwood cemetery today.
It once had a post office and school, and a railway station.
The town was not named Kirkwood (after
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (December 20, 1813 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician who twice served as governor of Iowa, twice as a U.S. Senator from Iowa, and as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
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) until the railway arrived; the school ''originally'' having been named Montgomery School and the property owned by postmaster William Wallace Watkins.
The town grew up around the railway station.
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.
In response, overnight, when the landowner was away, several community members put log rollers under the church and moved it to another, nearby, lot.
Kirkwood was also the location of one of Edgar J. De Pue's 15 warehouses in California.
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Incorporated cities and towns in California