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Cement Factory
Since 1994 we have traveled each weekend through the town of American Canyon at the southern end of Napa County. Originally a collection of unkempt farms and ranches, a highway flanked by small industrial businesses and brownfield lots, a junkyard, a roadside diner, a Texas hold-em card room, it has been morphing into Napa's only quintessential suburb. Thousands of houses and apartments have been built, an ever expanding franchise strip mall, a few motels, a major high school, a city hall, and a chronic rush hour traffic jam. About to be engulfed by the town are the ruins of the Standard Portland Cement Company, characteristic remnants of an earlier industrial age. Now, two decades after these photos were taken, the ruins have been festooned in graffiti by the town's new residents, but the town has embraced the ruins, planning at some point to incorporate them into a park as the new town center.
Since 1994 we have traveled each weekend through the town of American Canyon at the southern end of Napa County. Originally a collection of unkempt farms and ranches, a highway flanked by small industrial businesses and brownfield lots, a junkyard, a roadside diner, a Texas hold-em card room, it has been morphing into Napa's only quintessential suburb. Thousands of houses and apartments have been built, an ever expanding franchise strip mall, a few motels, a major high school, a city hall, and a chronic rush hour traffic jam. About to be engulfed by the town are the ruins of the Standard Portland Cement Company, characteristic remnants of an earlier industrial age. Now, two decades after these photos were taken, the ruins have been festooned in graffiti by the town's new residents, but the town has embraced the ruins, planning at some point to incorporate them into a park as the new town center.
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