It’s said that once in a while, when the water level drops here, the ruins of the city re-emerge.
I walked the shore of the Lexington Reservoir on a baking August morning in search of something.
Once described as a “vigorous and rollicking community,” the city featured a train station, mining store, general store, hotel and a post office only accessible through a bar. It was the site of a gruesome crime, an allegedly abusive cult and other wild tales of Western lore.In the latter 19th century, the logging industry in the Santa Cruz Mountains literally helped build San Francisco and San Jose. One redwood could build 20 homes. In the 1850s, loggers settled where this lake now sits.
“A bawdy atmosphere prevailed as town hotels were scenes of ribald parties and west coast notables gathered to quaff great quantities of champagne,” the Los Gatos Times remembered when news of the looming drowning came in the early 1950s. The story returned to headlines after one of the killers turned on Majors and helped the prosecution to avoid execution. Majors and one accomplice were executed, and the turncoat, one John Showers, was stabbed to death in Folsom Prison 16 years later by a childhood friend of Majors.
that the first-ever Western movie star, Academy Award winner Broncho Billy Anderson, shot silent movies in the town.
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