Thorn Road
Thorn Road was a toll road from Oakland, California to the Moraga Valley.[1] A photograph of it appears in a 1951 edition of the Southern California Historical Quarterly.[2] It was built by Hiram Thorn and succeeded Prince's Road.[3] It became Thornhill Drive.[4]
Prince's Road was another lumbering road in the area and was abandoned.[5] Thorn had a sawmill[6] in the Moraga Redwoods near Pinehurst, California. The road was begun in 1853 and followed the San Leandro Creek watershed. Part of it is now in the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Out with Old Thorn Road and in with the New". The San Francisco Examiner. November 14, 1896. p. 14 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Society, California Historical. "California Historical Society quarterly" – via Wikimedia Commons.
- ^ Marshall, Amelia Sue (October 30, 2017). East Bay Hills: A Brief History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-6311-0 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Marshall, Amelia Sue (October 30, 2017). East Bay Hills: A Brief History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4396-6311-0 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Thorn Road - Hiram Thorne". Oakland Tribune. May 1, 1952. p. 136 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Linsteadt, Sylvia. "Bay Nature: The Last Day's of Oakland's Giant Redwoods". Bay Nature.