PINOLE — The intertwined history of Pinole and Hercules and their connections to the crucial and dangerous dynamite industry that helped shape California and world history will be explored at a free ...
The dynamite plant of the Hercules Powder Company suffered a fire and series of explosions on July 14, 1966. The damage to the plant was considerable. Seventy of the buildings at the 1,200-acre plant ...
One year after demolition began at the Hercules plant on West Seventh Street in Hattiesburg, cleanup and building removal are almost complete at the iconic site built shortly after World War I to ...