Brickyard Cove, Richmond, California

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Brickyard Cove is a upscale waterfront neighborhood in Richmond, California. The neighborhood is surrounded by the bluffs of Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline and beach park. It is adjacent to Point Richmond. There area is subdivided into three main living areas, mostly condominiums terraced into the hills, private houses on stilts along the spits and Brickyard Cove Yacht Club in addition to Boathouses. And more recently hundreds of cookie-cutter McMansions have been added into the hillsides. The area is home to a fishing pier at Ferry Point who gets its namesake from the fact that it used to be the car ferry connecting to San Francisco. People who ended their journeys on the transcontinental railroad which terminated in Richmond and more specifically at Ferry Point in Brickyard Cove would take a ferry to San Francisco which was also capable of carrying autos. One such ferry was called the U.S.S. San Pablo after the bay. There is also a beach, Keller Beach popular with locals. The neighborhood is also home to the Golden Gate Model Railroad Museum one of the largest scaled railroads in the world.