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Washington Presbyterian Church Cemetery

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Dayton, Ohio.
Encouraged by Edmund and Jonathan Munger, the church congregation met for the first time on November 29, 1813. Services generally were held for some years in the larger of Edmund Munger's two barns. In 1830 a quaint brick church was built on two acres of land purchased for $35 by Jonathan Munger. The church faced Rt. 725 in front of the cemetery. Abandoned by the congregation in 1928, the building was razed by the Ohio State Highway Department in 1971. There are 89 graves including that of Revolutionary War General William Dodds. The earliest grave is dated 1830 and the last 1898. This cemetery is now maintained by Washington Township.

(Churches, Etc. • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Battle" of Riverton

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Riverton, West Virginia.
At this site, Confederate infantry along with two units of cavalry engaged Union forces numbering close forty. In the skirmish that resulted, Union troops rallied: forcing the Confederates from the field. Two local, Perry Bland and Thomas Powers were killed.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Juan Pablo Duarte

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, Dominican Republic.

Fundador de la
Republica Dominicana
1813-1838-1844-1876

English translation:
Juan Pablo Duarte
Founder of the Dominican Republic
1813-1838-1844-1876

(Politics • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Matson Line

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San Francisco, California.
From 1926 until 1970, piers 30 and 32 were famous as the San Francisco base of operations of the Matson Line, founded by Captain William Matson, who in 1882 borrowed $4,000 from a scow schooner man to buy shares in the sailing schooner Emma Claudina, which he sailed to Hawaii to bring back a load of sugar. It was the beginning of the Maston Navigation Company, which profited greatly from its Hawaiian connections in sugar, pineapple, oil, and a belief that islands could become a paradise in the Pacific for cruise ships.

(photograph #1)
Built in 1926, the double piers 30 and 32 are seen above in 1945, when the Matson vessels were painted battleship gray and converted to carry thousands of troops and their supplies to the Pacific. Matsonia is in the center, the Lurline is on the left at Pier 32, and Monterey is on the right at Pier 30. The Key System ferry boat was renamed Ernie Pyle, in honor of everybody's favorite wartime correspondent; it brought many soldiers destined for the war in the Pacific to this Matson Pier, where they embarked on their dangerous trip west. Directly in back of the piers was the Santa Fe Railroad freight yard and the five-story Matson Line Company building, designed to stock all the ship's supplies.

(photograph 2)
Lurline III past Diamond Head into Honolulu; her arrival always set off an island celebration. Her passengers could look forward to nostalgic music by the band, leis of flowers showers of streamers, and traditional dances of welcome.

(map of the Lurline South Seas and Orient cruise and photograph 3)
The dream of every movie-struck girl in the 1920s and 30s was to take a Matson cruise and find you deck-chair partner to be Douglas Fairbanks Jr., seen here in conversation with Miss California. Whether you travelled on the flagship Lurline to Hawaii, or on the sleek steamers Yale or Harvard on over-night between San Francisco and Los Angeles, shipboard romance sold tickets.

(photograph 4)
Piers 30-32 saw a dramatic confrontation on May 9, 1934, when members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union burned union cards in front of Pier 32. They shut the port down, leaving more than sixty ships stranded. The National Guard was called out, as seen in the view above, and by July 5th - remembered as "Bloody Thursday" - mounted police threw tear tear gas to drive stickers back from Pier 34 to Piers 30-32. One thousand policeman (sic) battled with five thousand union men up the slopes of Rincon Hill. Two were killed, hundreds were injured. It became a long and bitter general strike in which union demands were met.

(on the back of the pylon)
Matson Line Passenger Vessels that Sailed from Piers 30-32
Lurline II, 6571-ton passenger steamer, 1908-1928 • Wilhelmina, 5974-ton passenger steamer, 1909-1940 • Manoa, 6806-ton passenger steamer, 1913-1942 • Matsonia, 9402-ton passenger steamer, 1913-1937 • Maui, 9801-ton passenger steamer, 1917-1941 • Malolo, renamed Mastsonia #2, 17,232-ton passenger liner, 1927-1948 • Lurline #3, 18,564-ton passenger liner, 1932-1963 • Yale, 3818-ton passenger liner, 1931-1941 • Harvard, 3825-ton passenger liner, 1931-1941 • City of Los Angeles. 12,641-ton passenger liner, 1899-1937 • Sierra, 6076-ton passenger liner, 1901-1934 • Sonoma, 6279-ton passenger liner, 1901-1934 • Ventura, 6282-ton passenger liner, 1900-1924 • Mariposa #2, 18,017-ton passenger liner, 1932-1953 • Monterey #2 18,170-ton passenger liner, 1832-1982

(War, World II • Labor Unions • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Col. David T. McKnight

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

When needed most
his was the strength
that held us together

A great leader
in spirit - in action
in war - in peace

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism • Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Willow Creek Inn

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near Petaluma, California.
In 1907, Mr. Herman C. Bartelt purchased what was then known as the Willow Brook Hotel from Mrs. Ellen Hayne, widder of William Harvey Hayne, who had purchased the the property sometime prior to 1900. It was located at Corona Corners until the city saw fit to move Corona Road. Hayne listed his profession in the census of 1900 as saloon keeper. Sometime around 1920, the inn was purchased by G. F. Lieder who ran it as a general store, petrol station and motor inn through 1934.

Over the years, it has been operated as a stagecoach stop, a saloon, an inn, a motor inn, a general store/petrol station, and (up to the early 1960’s) a hotel with hourly room rentals, and presently under its current ownership The Willow Brook Ale House. It was an important stop on the “Indian Redwood Marathon” held in 1927 and 1928 that was run from the steps of City Hall in San Francisco to Grant’s Pass, Oregon along the Redwood Highway.



(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chickahominy Water Trail

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near Highland Springs, Virginia.
(left panel)
The Chickahominy Tribe

The Chickahominy Tribe originally lived in permanent villages along the Chickahominy River. The Chickahominy were among the first indigenous people to encounter European settlers. Tribal members helped the settlers survive during their first few winters and taught them how to grow and preserve food. The Treaty of 1646 displaced the Chickahominy and set aside land for them in the Pamunkey Neck area of Virginia.

Dugout canoes like the one depicted below, made from bald cypress logs, were used for fishing and transportation on the Chickahominy Tribe’s “Main Street” — the Chickahominy River.

Major General George B. McClellan’s Chickahominy River Bridges

Nearby stood the Grapevine Bridge constructed by the 5th New Hampshire Infantry under Colonel Edward E. Cross in May of 1862. The bridge was built to move men and supplies across the river in advance of the Battle of Seven Pines. The Battle of Seven Pines took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive up the Virginia Peninsula by Union Major General George B. McClellan, in which the Army of the Potomac reached the outskirts of Richmond.

"In view of the particular character of the Chickahominy, and the liability of its bottom land to sudden inundation, it became necessary to construct between Bottom's Bridge and Mechanicsville eleven new bridges, all long and difficult, with extensive log-way approaches."
Major General George B. McClellan

(center panel)
Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail

Welcome to the Chickahominy Water Trail, a segment of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. As you retrace the voyages of Captain John Smith on the Chickahominy River, you can rediscover the Virginia he encountered--its natural splendor and rich Native culture. As you explore the Chickahominy River, imagine the abundance that greeted Smith and his fellow Englishmen. Great schools of fish teemed in the clear river, bald cypress trees grew tall along the shore, and overhead waterfowl flew in flocks so thick the sky darkened as they passed.

“The Chickahominy Swamp"

Paddlers and anglers exploring this section of the River should be prepared to experience a swamplike wilderness. Navigation of this section of the Chickahominy Water Trail is physically challenging due to natural obstructions in the river corridor. Paddlers should be prepared to disembark from their boat to portage around natural obstacles.

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Public River Access

In an effort to increase public access to the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, this site was formalized for public river access by the James River Association, Henrico County, and the Virginia Department of Transportation using funding from the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay. Improvements to the site were completed by volunteers who revegetated the site with native trees and shrub species, improved the trail leading to the river, and installed the canoe and kayak launch.

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The Chickahominy River is an ideal destination for the sportsman and wildlife watcher alike. Much of the river is graced with wetlands and forested shorelines reminiscent of landscapes from hundreds of years ago. Near the mouth of the river is the only Virginia Wildlife Management Area in the coastal plain that consists mainly of woodlands and is managed primarily for upland wildlife.

(Native Americans • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels • Environment • Exploration) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stalag Luft III

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Presented at the
50th anniversary of their liberation,
12 May 1995, former Prisoners of War

Stalag Luft III

this majestic eagle, which so well
represents the spirit of Freedom,
is given in honor of those brave
airmen held as Prisoners of War
in Stalag Luft III, Germany during
World War II. Their unfaltering
belief in freedom was tested by
sacrifices unknown to most

Eagle designed by John Ruthven
and sculpted by John Leon

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism • Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


The Bay Bridge

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San Francisco, California.
Begun in 1933 in the depths of the Depression, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge put hundreds of men to work on two six-hour shifts, morning and night, for three years and seven months, to finish two months ahead of schedule on November 12, 1936, at a cost of $78,000,000. Declared a masterpiece of functional engineering, the eight and one-half mile span became the longest bridge of its kind in the world.

(photograph 1 and cross-section diagram of the Bay Bridge)
Yerba Buena island linked the two bridge crossings, as engineers tunneled through solid rock to create the world's largest diameter bore tunnel, excavating to a width of 65.5 feet and a height of 52.8 feet. The rock spoils helped to form Treasure Island, site of the 1939 World's Fair, and later the United States Navy base.
The bridge was designed to carry two levels of traffic, automobiles on the top level, and trucks and fast electric trains on the lower level. The trains carried passengers to cities throughout the East Bay and as far north as Chico, 128 miles away. But trains could not compete with the freeways, and last ran in 1958. The tracks were then removed to make room for more auto traffic.

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Dubbed "Moran's Island," after Daniel Moran, expert on deep-water footing, the prodigious anchorage between San Francisco and Yerba Buena Island is not solid but instead is composed of steel cylinders encased in concrete. The world's largest pneumatic timber caisson, measuring 97 by 192 feet, was towed to the center of the west crossing and sunk by releasing compressed air; concrete was then poured in the space between the cylinders. The resulting pier is the equivalent of a 40-story building covering half a city block. The massive anchorage for the twin suspension bridges was built on a rocky ridge 220 feet below. This ancient underwater rock formation determined the route of the Bay Bridge to its San Francisco origins, anchored on the rock of Rincon Hill.

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At age 78, Wally Ortez remembers when he got his job working as a rigger, building the Bay Bridge in 1933. "Listen, I was so damn lucky to get a job with a paycheck and so proud to say I was building that bridge, that I had to do something. So at lunch I would run as fast as I could right down the middle of that cat walk - from where I was, up to the next tower and back again. It was like running on a hammock, but 540 feet over the bay. I was only 19, I had more guts than sense.

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On November 12, 1936, as searchlights celebrated the opening of the Bay Bridge, no one would have believed that the great spans would break, But on October 18, 1989, a 7.1 earthquake severed a span and closed the bridge. After repairing the damage, workmen riveted a traditional iron bridge troll to the mended joint to protect the bridge from future catastrophe. Invisible to commuters but shown at the top of this pylon, the troll is a symbol of the mighty bridge and those workers who built and repaired it.

(on the back of the pylon)
Men who gave their lives in the course of the Bay Bridge construction
Louis R. Knight, age 24, rigger, died November 25, 1933 • William H. Morotzke, carpenter, died December 8, 1933 • E.S. Hill, caulker, died December 10, 1933 • Lloyd H. Evans, diver, died December 14, 1933 • Harold Schwates, construction worker, died April 21, 1934 • George J. Weikert, bridgeman, died September 18, 1934 • Donald McEachern, bridgeman, died October 25, 1934 • Bernard Hauffman, electrician's helper, died November 12, 1934 • R.L. Poole, rigger, died December 5, 1934 • Adolph Silversen, carpenter, died January 21, 1935 • Christy Thompson, carpenter, died March 6, 1935 • Henry Dennington, bridgeman, died June 5, 1935 • Arthur Lamoreaux, bridgeman, died June 17, 1935 • Michael Edward Markey, bridgeman, died July 2, 1935 • Walter Vanderburg, bridgeman, died September 16, 1935 • Marion Tavares, concrete laborer, died November 6, 1935 • Ed Correll, foreman painter, died December 5, 1935 • Paul Shelton, bridgeman, died March 28, 1936 • Charles Bazzili, bridgeman, died April 9, 1936 • Roy C. Bishop, rigger, died April 21, 1936 • Paul Gurley, bridgeman, died June 3, 1936 • George Zink, carpenter, died June 7, 1936 • W. Aguado, bridgeman, died July 10, 1936

(Bridges & Viaducts • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Manning F. Force Monument

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Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Manning F. Force-Col. 20th Ohio Infantry, Commanding 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division 17th Corps. June 4-July 4 1863.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Andrew Mann Inn

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Sidney, New York.
Andrew Mann Inn 1795-1860 A stagecoach stop along the Catskill Turnpike National Register of Historic Places

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Manning Ferguson Force Memorial

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Cincinatti, Ohio.
Manning F. Force was born Washington D.C., Dec. 17, 1824, son of Peter and Hannah (Evans) Force. Graduate of Harvard Law School, 1848, admitted to the Ohio Bar, 1850. Civil War Brevet Major General –In battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Sherman’s march to the sea. Judge Hamilton Co. Common Pleas Ct. 1867-1874. Judge Superior Ct. 1877 1887. Author of 5 books, President the Cincinnati Historical Society 1870-1886, Member, The Literary Club 1850-1899. Married Frances Dabney Horton of Pomeroy, O. May 13, 1874, Died, Sandusky, O., May 8, 1899.

(War, US Civil • Politics) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Burial Place of James A. Garfield

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Cleveland, Ohio.
Twentieth President of the United States. Born November 18, 1831 Died September 19, 1881.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Politics) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William McKinley

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Niles, Ohio.
National Memorial Free to the People

(Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Totten

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Built in 1861 and named after Brigadier General Joseph Gilbert Totten, Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Totten commanded the northeastern countryside of Washington, DC during the Civil War. Heavily armed with massive cannon that could hurl 100-pound projectiles several miles, Fort Totten halted the eastward advance of Confederate invaders inside Washington, DC during the Battle of Fort Stevens in July, 1864.

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

39th Troop Carrier Squadron

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

[Title is text]

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism • Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

69th Fighter Squadron

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

69th Fighter Squadron
5th Air Force
Asiatic Pacific Campaign
Nov. 1943 • Sept 1945

69th Fighter-Bomber Squadron
Korea
July 1952 • July 1953

69th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Persian Gulf
Jan. 1991 • Feb. 1991

To honor all 69th Squadron personnel
for their devoted service to our country
and the cause of freedom

Dedicated 5 October 1996

(War, World II • War, Korean • Air & Space • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lava River Cave

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near Bend, Oregon.

(Marker #1)
Welcome
LAVA RIVER CAVE is one of Oregon's longest (5466 feet) uncollapsed lava tubes.

About 100,000 years ago, this conduit carried 2000° F. (1100° C.) lava from an upslope vent to lower areas on the flanks of the Newberry Volcano.

The long trench you are standing in formed after the lava drained from the tube and part of the cave roof collapsed.

"Breakdown", or collapse blocks, litter the first 1000 feet, but beyond lies nearly a mile (actually 4400 feet) of cave, much of it appearing as it did when the ancient lava river left it.

(Please leave the cave clean so others can enjoy it.)

(Marker #2)
Highway Crossing, Flow Lines and Lava Shelf
Highway Crossing
At the bench–look both ways you are now crossing US 97! The ceiling is about 31 feet above you and the roof thickness is about 50 feet.

Flow Lines and Lava Shelf
"Bathtub rings" or flow lines form when lava maintains a constant level and deposits a ridge of lava on the wall. The more prominent ridge is called a lava shelf and has lavacicles (lava stalactities) on its underside due to remelting of the tube surface. A thin glassy glaze, wrinkled glaze, and other remelt features are abundant in the cave.

(Marker #3)
Tube in Tube
"Tube in tube" or vertically stacked passages. Lava here eventually drained only through the lower tube as lava levels lowered late in the eruption. Look for the surfaces and flow fronts of the last flows throughout the cave.

(Marker #4)
Sand Gardens
Sediment washes slowly through roof cracks and partially fills the cave, especially in the lower section. The delicate "sand garden" or "fairy castles" form as water droplets erode the sand fill.

SAND FILL NEAR THE END OF THE CAVE
The cave sediment thickens and eventually fills the tube from floor to ceiling. Two enthusiastic explorers dug a trench over 300 feet long in 1936, but they were unable to extend the length of the open cave.

(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Some Lava Flows Build Their Own Pipelines

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near Bend, Oregon.
You may already know about pipelines. Oil, water and gas, chemicals, medicine and food flow to us through pipes and tubes. Pipelines are a naturally efficient way to move fluid from one place to another. Nature constructs marvelous pipelines—like roots, river channels, blood vessels and lava tubes.

How does lava build a pipeline? Flowing lava cools quickly and a hard, rock shell forms on all exposed surfaces. Inside, molten lava stays a comfortably searing 2100° F (1150° C). Cooling rock eventually confines liquid lava to a narrow pipeline. When the volcanic eruption ends—lava drains out leaving an empty tube. OK, now we can call it a cave.

Over the last one million years, thousands of lava flows—erupting from the volcano you are standing on—built lava tubes. There is one common way we find these lava pipelines...can you figure out what that is before the next sign?

(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Beale Street Wharf

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San Francisco, California.
Until this section of the seawall was completed in 1909, the waters of San Francisco Bay reached the shore near present-day Bryant Street. From this place, the Beale Street Wharf extended 500 feet into the bay, and inland for another 500 feet as far as Bryant Street. The 1000-foot stretch of Beale Street Wharf made it ideal to repair the largest vessels on San Francisco Bay.

(photograph 2)
The Majestic hove down, at the Beale Street Wharf, 1886... In his time, Haviside, the ship rigger, would heave the big ships down so the shipwrights could strip of the old copper and caulk the seams before applying new copper sheathing. At a single time, as many as forty workers stripped, caulked, and hampered sheathing nails into the hulk, working side by side along the Beale Street Wharf.
A complete new coppering job meant stripping off the old copper, caulking the seams, laying felt in tar over the wooden bottom, and then nailing on a full copper sheathing to protect the wooden hull from ship worms and to inhibit the growth of barnacles. The old tradition of "heaving down" a vessel remained the most economical way to repair a ship - but only in the hands of an expert like Haviside and the other master riggers on the San Francisco waterfront.

(photograph 3)
"We had the mainmast out of the Henry B. Hyde... it was rotten. That same day - my mother died and my son was born." J.J. Haviside, English immigrant of the 1890s, brought up his four sons to be experienced ship-riggers. Three generations of Havisides rigged the largest, and the last, of the commercial sailing ships on the Pacific northwest coast. Working out of San Francisco, they often put together rigging teams and steamed up the coast to Puget Sound to install the 100-foot masts.

"All That Work For Three Meals A Day!" -- Harry Heaviside, Ship Rigger
(Photograph 4)
Lucile, the last sailing ship to be hove down in San Francisco, 1901. Tilting a vessel over on her side required applied science, skills and experience. Harry Haviside recalls, "Competition was very keen and time was the essence of getting the job done." The vessels' masts were shored up with timbers, as seen in this view. Powerful tackles lead to the horse-operated capstans bolted to the wharf. Hauling on the ropes pulled her over until the keel was exposed so that the caulkers could strip the bottom, re-caulk and renew her copper sheathing. Haviside hove down Lucile on the Union Street Wharf - the last sailing ship to be so repaired in the city.

(photograph 5)
The Beale Street Wharf was famous from 1872-1907 as the biggest coal dock operation on the West Coast, the Oregon Improvement Company. Owned by Henry Villiard, this San Francisco company mined coal near Seattle and shipped it in its own steamers. At the Beale Street Wharf, the Williamette, Mississippi, Umatilla, and Walla Walla unloaded coal from Puget Sound. Special hoists could lift 200 tones an hours from steamboat hatches and move the coal along tramways to storage sheds on the company's waterfront lots.
Any city coal dealer could drive his horse and cart onto a scale to be weighed and loaded with coal, and then weighed again, buying the coal that warmed family homes and ran San Francisco industries in the 19th Century. The coal cart was a familiar sight now vanished.
Coal dealer Bill Granfield recalls his father's advice: "Go down to the department of public works and pick up a half ton of basalt paving blocks. Bring them to my yard and I'll paint them black so you can substitute them for a few lumps of coal in every sack. If the customer complains tell him, 'It's ever-lasting coal.' If he still objects, return them to the coal wharf and they will replace them with coal. Either way its works." Bill Granfield, self-styled as "the only full-weight coal dealer south of Market in San Francisco."

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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