Transportation

Transportation is a key factor in the development the region. Roadways, shipping routes and landings, the arrival of the railroad, the invention and use of the automobile and paved roadways attributed to an ease of transportation and a more efficieant way of shipping and receiving goods from Washington Township to destinations all over the world.

Many of the former Native American trails became cart paths and roads. The names of these roads, streets, highways and freeways changed through time.

Travel on the San Francisco Bay was also common for the Native American. Many of these embarcation points opend life to communication and trade. Landings were a key transporation connnection for travel and commerce.

Niles was the terminus for the opening of the Transcontinental railroad that began the faster and more efficient transportation across the country.

Yet, again the automobile stimulated the building of more efficeint highways, then freeways.

The map highlights a few road , streets, bridges and landings that helped open commerce and connections with the world.

Listed below are the categories in Transportation:

37-40. Main Roads

37. Mission Blvd

38. Fremont Blvd. (Oakland-San Jose Road)

39. Washington Blvd

40. Roads to Landings

41. Dumbarton: Bridge (for cars), Train Bridge, Point

42. Landings: A. Barron, B. Stokes, C. Patterson, D. Mayhew, E. Plummer,

F. Green Point, G. Mowry, H. Larkin, I. Warm Springs, J. Dixon

43. Railroads: Lines and Stations