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Oliver Salt Company

former saltworks in California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2023
Entity authorityQ7087807 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oliver Salt Company was a saltworks located on the San Francisco Bay adjacent to Hayward, California, which produced salt by evaporation from the San Francisco Bay Area. The remains of their facilities are within Eden Landing Ecological Reserve.

See also

Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Leslie Salt

References

External links

"Oliver Salt images". Hayward Area Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 14, 2011.

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The public source identifies “Oliver Salt Company” as former saltworks in California. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oliver, Salt and Company.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oliver Salt Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.