This collection contains two ledger books from the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company.

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.

2.1 Linear Feet 2 flat boxes, 1 oversize folder

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