Last Family Sees Home Burn Down

Oakland Tribune, Jan. 17, 1967

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HAYWARD—For the Antonio Ancona family, life was ending in Russell City.

They were the last family still living in the old community, which is being razed for an Industrial park. One relative was one of the area's first settlers.

Yesterday they began moving their possessions to a new home in Union City, south of Hayward.

But arsonists, the plague of Russell City during its final years, struck again.