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The cement plant was founded by Kaiser as the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant in 1939, taking the name of the business from the Permanente Creek in whose valley it lies. Kaiser intended to use the quarry to provide the majority of the cement used in the construction of the Shasta Dam, supplying the 6 million barrels (950,000 m 3 ) of cement. [ 19 ]
Kaiser Richmond Medical Center. Kaiser Richmond Medical Center is a large Kaiser Permanente hospital in downtown Richmond, California which serves 77,000 members registered under its medical plans. [1] It opened in 1995 replacing the historic 1942 Richmond Field Hospital that serviced Liberty shipyard workers and thus gave birth to the HMO.
Sand Canyon is an equestrian community, with trails for horseback riding, and large, upscale estates - among the most expensive in the Santa Clarita Valley. Most homes in Sand Canyon are custom-built. [4] The community includes Sand Canyon Country Club. Plans for a Sand Canyon resort and spa have encountered hurdles and criticism from residents.
The wilderness is 22,700 acres (92 km 2) in size, is one of five wilderness areas within the Sierra National Forest and is managed by the US Forest Service . The Kaiser Wilderness stretches along an east–west ridge and is separated from the High Sierra by the South Fork San Joaquin River canyon. It is a miniature version of the Sierra, with ...
06-24680. GNIS feature IDs. 1652711, 2410517. Website. fontana .org. Fontana is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Founded by Azariel Blanchard Miller in 1913, [ 1] it remained essentially rural until World War II, when entrepreneur Henry J. Kaiser built a large steel mill in the area.
1660573 [ 1] Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National ...
The Eagle Mountain Railroad (EMRR) was a private railroad in California, owned by the Kaiser Steel Corporation, and is owned today by Kaiser Steel's successor, Kaiser Ventures, Inc. of Ontario, California. The EMRR is 51 miles (82 km) long and is located in Riverside County, California. Constructed in 1947–1948, it was used until 1986 to haul ...
At 2:01 p.m., the Kern County Fire Department issued an order to evacuate Sand Canyon because of worries the area's only access road will become impassable because of Tropical Storm Hillary.