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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company records
Creator:
Santa Cruz Portland Cement
Company
Identifier/Call Number: MS.303
Physical Description:
2.1 Linear Feet
2 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1909-1940
Abstract: This collection contains two ledger
books from the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company.
Physical Location: Stored in Special Collections &
Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Language of Material:
English .
Collection open for research.
Gift of the Younger family.
Eleven miles north of Santa Cruz on Highway 1, sits Davenport, the home of Pacific Cement
and Aggregates, Inc, since 1965, Lone Star Industries Inc. The company started out in 1906
as the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company when it bought the ancient kilns and lime strata
developed by John Q. Packard and F. W. Billing. By 1907, the company had built its plant on
it 6000 acre site about a mile below Davenport Landing, and the name of Davenport was given
to the new cement company town that began to develop.
In 1923 the Santa Cruz Portland Cement company purchased a narrow gauge electric railroad
from a mine at Juneau, Alaska and installed it at Davenport, improving its method of hauling
the limestone from quarry to plant.
By 1934 the company had built tall storage silos at the plant and a steel pier which
carried forced air pipes out through the lines, with pumps and air compressors. The
Santacruzcement, the first bulk ship on the Pacific Coast and owned by the
company, received her first load of cement at the new pier in 1934.
On March 13, 1956, Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company was sold to Pacific Coast
Aggregates.
Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company records. MS 303. Special Collections and Archives,
University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Processed by UCSC OAC Unit, 2006. Updated by Zoe MacLeod, 2024.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains two ledger books; Purchase Record, 1909-1921 and Segregated
Inventory, 1921-1925, an affidavid, a death notice, and a gold medal certificate from
Western Engineering
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Portland cement
Mineral industries -- California -- Santa
Cruz County
Cement plants -- California -- Davenport --
Business records
Santa Cruz Portland Cement
Company