Name/Title
Postcard, PictureEntry/Object ID
2017.030.0240Description
This is a divided back postcard. The photo is of Carter Heights in Vallejo, CA The back is addressed to Miss Mary Power of San Anselmo, CA. The message is acknowledgement of her postcard and says he signed up with Cahill last night(?).
Carter Heights was the earlier name for the present Vallejo Heights. Likewise, how many of our readers remember Fremont Street? Many of Vallejo’s prominent residents, half a century or so ago, lived on Fremont.
Subdivisions were few and far between in early Vallejo. In the first fifty years there were only two or three. One of these involved Vallejo Heights. The 186 acres of wheat fields belonged to William Carter, listed as a farmer as far back as the 1872 directory of Vallejo.
About 1898 a J. W. Hartzell, brother of a leading San Francisco banker, came to Vallejo and organized the Carter Land and Development Company. He cleared the property, set engineers at work and had the entire tract surveyed and laid off into lots, blocks and streets. The property was placed on the market about 1900.Collection
Costa Postcard Collection
