Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. ![]() |
Location of Tanglewood with possible sites of flag-stop (Map courtesy Duncan Nanney; annotations mine) |
Virtually nothing is known of the train stop except that it was certainly a flag-stop, catering to the small local population located in the subdivision. The stop was operated solely by the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1907 until the line closed in 1926. No extant photographs are known to exist of the stop, though the location was undoubtedly in the clearing at the base of San Lorenzo Avenue or just to the north of that site where three houses now reside on the original right-of-way. If that latter site is to be supposed, it would have been immediately adjacent to the Highway 9 entrance to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park (then called Big Trees County Park) at the base of Oak Avenue alongside Shingle Mill Creek.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. ![]() |
Google Street View of the intersection of Highway 9 (West San Lorenzo Road) and San Lorenzo Avenue. The stone pillar that marked the Tanglewood subdivision can be seen at center-left under a tree. |
Citations:
- Donald Thomas Clark, Santa Cruz Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. (Scotts Valley, CA: Kestrel Press, 2008).
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (Harvard UP, 2005).
- UC Santa Cruz Digital Collection.