Bryte, California

Bryte (formerly, Riverbank) is a former town in Yolo County, California, now forming part of West Sacramento.

[7] The following year, developer D.W. Hobson commenced sales of a residential subdivision, offering plots on a 200 acre section of the former ranch for purchase as home sites in a new town, to be named Riverbank.

[15] At the time, Riverbank children, numbering forty in 1913, walked to the school in Broderick, a distance of several miles.

[19] Following passage of a $10,000 bond measure in May 1914, architect John Woodward Woollett produced plans in a Mission Revival style featuring twin towers, tiled roofs, and cloistered archways.

[22] In September 1914, the Improvement Club determined to petition for a post office, the town's earlier request for a rural route having been denied by the Postal Department on account of poor road conditions.

Newspaper advertisement for Riverbank, "The First Subdivision of West Sacramento", by D.W. Hobson Company
Newspaper advertisement, 1912
Black-and-white photograph of the Riverbank general store, with "Yolo County Free Library" among other signage.
Riverbank general store, 1913
Yolo County map