• The Pacific Rolling Mill Company was the West’s first iron and steel producing foundry, founded in 1866, in San Francisco, California. (The company was...
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    in the 1860s. Early factories were powder magazine plant, the Pacific Rolling Mill Company and small shipyards. The large Union Iron Works and its shipyards...
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    The Atlanta Rolling Mill (later the Confederate Rolling Mill) was constructed in 1858 by Lewis Schofield and James Blake and soon after, Schofield and...
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  • waterfront dockworkers 1866 Pacific Rolling Mill Company, the West's first iron and steel producing foundry (rolling mill of the period pictured), is...
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  • rolling mill was opened at the Pittsburg plant. Open hearth furnace capacity reached 7000 tons per month. From 1918 to 1921 the short-lived Pacific Coast...
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  • The Simpson Investment Company is a company based in McCleary, Washington in the US Pacific Northwest that specializes in manufacture of forest products...
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    Kaiser Steel (category Ironworks and steel mills in the United States)
    Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the company on December 1, 1941...
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    The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands...
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    Poppleton in 1869. In 1873, he became treasurer of the Marquette & Pacific Rolling Mill Company. In 1866, Wheaton ran for state Senate, and lost by only 12 votes...
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  • California, built by Humboldt Lumber Mill Company McCloud, California, built by McCloud River Railroad Lumber Company. Metropolitan, California, built by...
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