What is "castroville"

Usage examples of "castroville".

Off to the sides, around Salinas and Blanco and Castroville and Moss Landing, the marshes are still there.

Two blocks down, the Southern Pacific tracks cut diagonally across the street on their way south, and a street crossed Castroville Street from east to west.

From over on Castroville Street came the sweet sound of jingling horse bells from an eight-horse grain team down from the ridge.

From Bell’s she went direct­ly back to Castroville Street and thence to her house.

At Castroville, the first station north, he got off and waited four hours for the Del Monte express from San Francisco to Monterey, which is at the end of a spur line.

He climbed the high fence, found the two-by-twelve plank that served as a bridge across the slough of dark water, and came out between Lang’s Bakery and the tinsmith’s shop on Castroville Street.

They rode through Castroville where coyotes had dug up the dead and scattered their bones and they crossed the Frio River and they crossed the Nueces and they left the Presidio road and turned north with scouts posted ahead and to the rear.

The valley might have remained linked forever with produce, like other parts of California – Castroville with its artichokes, Gilroy with garlic – except for an impulsive decision in 1909 by a man named David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, which was located smack in the middle of Santa Clara Valley.

The valley might have remained linked forever with produce, like other parts of California - Castroville with its artichokes, Gilroy with garlic - except for an impulsive decision in 1909 by a man named David Starr Jordan, the president of Stanford University, which was located smack in the middle of Santa Clara Valley.