DRAWBRIDGE, CALIFORNIA

'Drawbridge' is an abandoned hunting village located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, in unincorporated Alameda County. It has been ghost town since 1979.
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. The drawbridges were removed long ago. The only road leading into this town is the Southern Pacific Railroad track.
For years after the 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. 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.^[1][2]

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1. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, ''Drawbridge, CA: Returning the Tide,'' September 2003, pdf,accessed June 3, 2007
2. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, John Steiner, ''Tideline Newsletter,'' "Drawbridge: A Ghost Town Revisited," pdf, nd, accessed June 3, 2007

External links

★ Drawbridge, California - A Hand-Me-Down History

★ Drawbridge, California - A ghost town