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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The gravel pit at Kaweah #3 Hydro Plant.
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The gravel pit for Kaweah #3 Hydro Plant, showing a wheelbarrow on tracks.
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos [Big Creek construction - grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel pit & washer, Huntington Lake, east portal Tunnel #3, logging, Dam 2 and dam site 3, Camp 1, Big Creek at Powerhouse #1 site, train #103 arriving at Cascada, train leaving for El Prado, Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek, steam shovel, Cascada yards, Hoist #2, warehouse, planning mill, lumber yards.]
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith, general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant, hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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This picture of Dam #1 taken in February 1913, shows the foundation being prepared for the first pour of concrete. The elaborate wooden trestlework was needed to hoist the mixed concrete and chute it down onto the work face.
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