The California Powder Works, along the San Lorenzo River, in 1864 became the first explosive powder manufacturing operation west of the Rockies. The two-story Italianate mansion on the left was built ...

A view of the interior of the powder house magazine at the California Powder Works along the San Lorenzo River canyon. Incorporated in 1861, this first explosive powder manufacturing company west of ...

Strolling into Glen Canyon Park, it’s easy to miss the large plaque proclaiming the site to be “the first dynamite factory in America.” While historic, it also seems like an odd location to ...

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Talk about your books being overdue. The residents of Hercules, Calif., had to wait 126 years before they could check out reading material from a library of their own. That's because the city, on San ...

Today's ultra-heated political rhetoric, particularly regarding the coronavirus pandemic, has resulted in increasingly overt expressions of racism, and outright physical violence, toward the Bay ...

Labor Day honors the unsung workers who built this nation, manufactured its goods, and sometimes risked their lives for low wages. The 1848 Gold Rush put California on the fast track for statehood.