A tiny half-ghost town, Collinsville was established in 1859 on the edge of Suisun Bay as Montezuma Township after L.P. Marshall's Montezuma House nearby. The small port/fishing village became a major ferry stop for hides and tallow to cross the Carquinez Strait to the cities further South. In 1867, the town was purchased by a S.C. Bradshaw, who renamed the town Newport and began selling some 29000 lots, many of which were (literally) underwater (at high tide). The scam failed and the sheriff seized the town and renamed it Collinsville. By the 1870s, Collinsville had a large salmon cannery and hotels and stores that serviced its workers. When the cannery closed, Collinsville was devastated and began declining, eventually falling to just 8 people and some 20 homes. While the population has climbed slightly since then, a fire in 2014 destroyed half of the remaining sleepy town.
Collinsville, California

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