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The Hammond-Little River Redwood Company, Ltd. was formed in a 1931 merger with Hammond Lumber Company. [3] Crannell was called Camp Nine by the Hammond Lumber Company. [7] When Northwestern Pacific Railroad terminated service north of Arcata in 1933, their line through Fieldbrook was abandoned.
The Hammond-Little River Redwood Company, Ltd. was formed in a 1931 merger with Hammond Lumber Company. This resulted in the former Little River Redwood Company transferring control of former company towns to Hammond Lumber, such as with Crannell. The Humboldt Northern Railway connection to Samoa was dismantled in 1948. [2]
SS A. B. Hammond was a liberty ship built by California Shipbuilding Corporation of Los Angeles, and delivered in February 1944, to the War Shipping Administration (WSA). [ 2 ] SS A. B. Hammond is named after Andrew B. Hammond , owner of the Hammond Lumber Company and Hammond Shipping Co. Ltd.
The Hammond Trail is a northern California rail trail along the Pacific coast in Humboldt County. The 5.5 mi (8.9 km) hiking and biking trail follows the historic Hammond Lumber Company 's Humboldt Northern Railway grade from the Mad River to Little River State Beach .
Hammond was born in Saint-Léonard, New Brunswick, Canada on July 22, 1848. [1] He left home at 16 years old to work in the logging camps of Maine and Pennsylvania. He arrived in Montana in 1867, worked as a woodcutter and store clerk, eventually becoming a partner in the mercantile firm of Bonner, Eddy and Company.
The Samoa sawmill was the largest in Humboldt County [11] when purchased by Andrew B. Hammond in 1900. [13] The Samoa post office opened in 1894. [6] A sash and door factory was added to the mill complex by 1909, [10] and the company was reorganized as the Hammond Lumber Company in 1912. [14]
Hammond is a former unincorporated community in Fresno County, California, now incorporated into Fresno. [1] It lies at an elevation of 299 feet (91 m). [1] It laid along the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Valley Division.
A 2015 aerial photo of Grizzly Bay taken from the southeast; Hammond Island can be seen near the center, with Van Sickle Island to the southeast, Wheeler Island and Honker Bay to the south, Simmons Island to the southwest and Grizzly Island to the north. Hammond Island is a small island in Suisun Bay, California.