Montezuma, California

Montezuma is a former hamlet and township in Solano County, California, located in the California Delta region of the state; the township, which embraced the hamlet, and several other places, such as Bird's Landing—which still exists—included portions of the Montezuma Hills. The name Montezuma was used in multiple places within Solano County by Mormans settlement attempts during 1847–50.[1]

Montezuma stop in 1918

Sacramento Northern train crossing at Chipps in 1918 near Collinsville

The hamlet was also a stop on the Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Railway (later absorbed into the Sacramento Northern Railway), an electrified interurban passenger rail line that ran, with the help of a ferry across Suisun Bay, from Oakland, through Contra Costa County, across the bay, and into Solano County, making stops at Chipps and Dutton, before passing through Montezuma on its way to Rio Vista, California. The railway stop was located approximately a mile and a half northwest of present-day Collinsville, just after the rail line swung due north, from its north-easterly trajectory from the ferry landing at Chipps Island, at the Suisun Bay shoreline.

References

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1. Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 246. ISBN 0520213165.
2. "1. Official Map of the County of Solano - 1915". Solano County Board of Supervisors. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
3. "2. Sacramento Northern Railway System Map - 1939". Sacramento Northern Railway. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 15, 2011.