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Solano History 12 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Remembering Cement, Tolenas and Tidewater Railroad / Dingler, Nancy [478] [RETROSPECT-2003-478]
One day in 1900, representatives of the Steiger Terra Cotta and Pottery Works of San Francisco visited local rancher A.A. Dickie. The Steiger people had learned that Dickie had a rich deposit of lime on his property. It turned out to be a very rich find indeed, the consequence of which a company was formed, called the Eureka Portland Cement Co.
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WY0160h WY0160h

Proposed route of V and; N Railroad-Views along the site of the V and; N Railroad - Pacific Portland Cement Co. at Cement, California..
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WY0160g WY0160g

Proposed route of V and; N Railroad-Views along the site of the V and; N Railroad - Standard Portland Cement Co. at Cement, California..
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4192 4192
1970

Newsclip-20 Sept., 1970-"Tolenas Station located east if Suisun near present-day Travis AFB. Also junction for a swing railroad that was about 3 miles long that went to the town of Cement and the huge Portland Cement Plant..
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0358A 0358A

Train wreck at Cement Pacific Portland Cement Co./Tulewater RR
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2818 2818

Pacific Portland Cement Plant, Cement, CA. Taken in its days of glory, now completely razed..
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1005 1005

Quarry and crusher. Pacific Portland Cement Co
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KPIX Channel 5 Town of Cement KPIX Channel 5 Town of Cement
2009

"Eye On The Bay" host Brian Hackney interviews local historian Jerry Bowen at the site of the old town of Cement. Cement was a company town that operated near Fairfield, CA from 1902 to 1927, which produced most of the portland cement used for area bridges and buildings..


Running Time: 03:33
Video Format: 720x480 4/3, 29.97 - DVD
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0358B 0358B

Back of train wreck shots. Train wreck Pacific Portland Cement Co./Tulewater R. R..
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Memories of the Fairfield area / Bowen, Jerry [198] [WAYITWAS-2004-198]
Memoirs often provide valuable insight about the past that may seem of little importance when an individual first writes them. Today, with the last remains of the old company town of Cement rapidly disappearing under the onslaught of new development, a way of life is also being relegated to the dusty archives of history to be remembered only in the minds of a few old-timers and people who enjoy learning about the past.
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