[2] It once had a post office and school, and a railway station.

[2] The town was not named Kirkwood (after Samuel J. Kirkwood[3]) until the railway arrived; the school originally having been named Montgomery School and the property owned by postmaster William Wallace Watkins.

[2] The Methodist church in the town was built on donated land in 1888, however the landowner claimed that because there was no deed, he in fact owned the church, and the churchpeople would have to pay off a mortgage.

[4][2] In response, overnight, when the landowner was away, several community members put log rollers under the church and moved it to another, nearby, lot.

[3] This Tehama County, California-related article is a stub.