Kirkwood, Tehama County, California

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

Kirkwood
Kirkwood is located in California
Kirkwood
Kirkwood
Location in California
Kirkwood is located in the United States
Kirkwood
Kirkwood
Kirkwood (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°51′19″N 122°09′43″W / 39.85528°N 122.16194°W / 39.85528; -122.16194
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyTehama County
Elevation220 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]