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Interchange; west end of SR 169; US 101 exit 769; road continues as Chapman Street: Klamath Glen: 3.52: Riffle Road: East end of western section of SR 169: Gap in route : Humboldt HUM 13.20-33.84: Wautec: 13.20: Johnsons Road: West end of eastern section of SR 169 29.95: Martins Ferry Bridge over Martins Ferry School Creek: Weitchpec: 33.84: SR ...
The town of Nitro—Giant was established in 1892 as a company town by the Giant Powder Company.The company moved its manufacturing facilities to this location, after a factory explosion demolished the two previous plants in Glen Canyon in San Francisco, and on the Cerrito de San Antonio (renamed Albany Hill in 1909) in the then unincorporated northwest corner of Alameda County adjacent to the ...
The area is still shown on maps as "Giant", and a principal thoroughfare through the area is called "Giant Highway". [19] The site of the Giant Powder Company at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline is a California Historical Landmark, number 1002-1, marked with a monument and plaque. [11] On May 31, 1961, shortly after the Atlas Powder Company ...
A Times story in 1937 chronicled Frank Critzer's efforts to build a home under Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert. The article made a point of saying that an Oldsmobile helped make the trip from L.A ...
The giant sequoia is considered the largest known living tree on the planet and also one of the tallest, widest and longest-lived (estimated at 2,000+ years old). It is more than 100 feet around ...
California Powder Works was the first American explosive powder manufacturing company west of the Rocky Mountains. When the outbreak of the Civil War cut off supplies of gunpowder to California 's mining and road-building industries, a local manufacturer was needed.
C.C. Myers, the legendary Sacramento construction icon who gained fame rebuilding damaged California freeways at breakneck speed, died Wednesday. He was 85. Myers, whose death was announced on the ...
Giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. This is a list of giant sequoia groves. All naturally occurring giant sequoia groves are located in the moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in California, United States. They can be found at elevations between 1,400 and 2,400 m (4,593 and ...