The Southern Pacific Railroad did not employ the most creative naming scheme on its Loma Prieta Branch. Three stations have Spanish names, t...

When Addison Newell established his homestead along a remote tributary of the San Lorenzo River in 1867, he likely did not anticipate how lo...

When the Santa Cruz & Felton Railroad arrived in Felton in 1875, it was situated on the west bank of the San Lorenzo River. On the eas...

Carnadero Station on the 1939 San Juan Bautista USGS Map. In the open fields to the south of Gilroy sits the lone remnants of a little-u...

Castroville and Del Monte Junction on a 1915 USGS map. As with so many things located in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, the town of C...