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Lompoc, California. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Santa Barbara. Associated ZIP codes: 93436, 93437, 93438.
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Albuquerque’s Carpenters Local 1319 built a walnut casket for labor leader Dolores Huerta, honored at a New Mexico ceremony before burial in California.
The massive waves could be problematic, said Joe Merchant, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, who added that there may be more such wave events...
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Lompoc is in Santa Barbara County, California.
Region: Southern California
93436, 93437, 93438
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Albuquerque’s Carpenters Local 1319 built a walnut casket for labor leader Dolores Huerta, honored at a New Mexico ceremony before burial in California.
The massive waves could be problematic, said Joe Merchant, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, who added that there may be more such wave events...
Before the Spanish conquest the Lompoc area was home to the Chumash, and Purisimeno, a Chumashan language, was spoken there during the mission period. The original Mission La Purisima was founded in 1787 near the southern edge of the present city. After an earthquake destroyed it in 1812, it was moved to its present site about a mile northeast of town. Mexico secularized the missions in 1833, and La Purisima fell into ruin until the Civilian Conservation Corps restored it during the Depression.
In 1893 a diatomaceous earth mine opened in the hills of Miguelito Canyon, later owned by Johns Manville and others and now by Imerys. It became the largest marine diatomite mine in the world and for a time the valley's largest employer, with more than 900 workers at its peak under Johns Manville, which built housing for employees and donated JM Park to the city. Another diatomite company, Grefco, operated from the 1940s until 1998. In 1909 the Sibyl Marston, then the largest steam schooner built on the West Coast, sank nearby with 1.1 million board feet of lumber, and many Lompoc homes were built from its cargo. The coastal line of the Southern Pacific opened around 1900 and replaced shipping, and a paved road linked Lompoc to Buellton around 1920. In 1923 the Honda Point disaster, the largest peacetime accident in U.S. naval history, occurred just off the coast when nine destroyers ran aground and 23 men died. During World War II the coast west of town became Camp Cooke, an Army training camp. Sources Wikipedia: Lompoc, California
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