Name/Title
Southern Pacific Depot (c. 1900)Description
The Southern Pacific Railroad (formerly the Northern Railway and now Union Pacific) came to the Pinole waterfront in the late 1870s. With the railroad came a Pinole depot at the end of Tennent Avenue, across from the Bernardo Fernandez home. Pinole’s Southern Pacific depot was built in the 1880s. Until 1910, the depot served as Pinole’s post office. In 1889, Edward M. Downer came to Pinole at age 19 and served as the first official postmaster and the Southern Pacific’s transfer agent and telegrapher. Southern Pacific depots were always painted yellow and had a palm tree planted beside them. The original depot, by the shores of San Pablo Bay, was demolished in 1958.Copyright
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Pinole Historical Society