Bell Station, California

Bell Station, California

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A Department of Transportation (Caltrans) maintenance station used to exist in this area. A California Department of Forestry fire station is west of Bell Station along SR152.

The ZIP Code is 95020 and the community is inside area code 408.

History

The location was originally Hollenbeck's Station, (possibly after the namesake of the Sunnyvale street of the same name). [ Durham, David L., "Durham's Place Names of the San Francisco Bay Area," (Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press, 2000) pp. 153.] It was renamed for Lafayette F. Bell who built a saloon at the entrance to a toll road over Pacheco Pass. Later, Bell bought the road over Pacheco Pass from Andrew Firebaugh and began charging a toll for passage. A Bell's Station Post Office was established by the U.S. Postal Service from 1873-1914. [Myer, Chuck, report: "Pacheco Past: A History of the Gateway to Santa Clara County", (San Jose, California: Pioneers of Santa Clara County, 1992).]

Some references say the locale was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route. [Myer, Chuck, report: "Pacheco Past: A History of the Gateway to Santa Clara County", (San Jose, California: Pioneers of Santa Clara County, 1992).] The stagecoach route to San Francisco from the American midwest was known to have stops every ten miles or so along its length.

Geography

Bell Station is an officially-defined geographic feature of type "locale" in the National Geographic Names Database. The feature ID number is 218994. The location also appears on the US Geological Survey 7.5-minute quadrangle "Pacheco Peak, California" and the 1921 "Gilroy Hot Springs, California" 15-minute quadrangle.

The US Geological Survey latitude and longitude for the locale is given as coord|37|02|12|N|121|18|39|W. The area is about 350 feet above mean sea level (AMSL).

Other articles

*Henry W. Coe State Park

ources

* [http://www.gilroydispatch.com/printer/article.asp?c=161683 "The History of Pacheco Pass" as retrieved January 19, 2007.]

References

External links

*Geolinks-US-hoodscale|37.0365|-121.3108
* [http://www.coestatepark.com/bellstn.htm Bell Station Kaiser-Aetna Road (restricted access) entrance to Coe State Park]
* [http://bard.wr.usgs.gov/historical/jpg/gilroyhotsprings1921a.jpg1921 USGS Gilroy Hot Springs 15-minute quadrangle map]


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