F. E. Booth

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Summary
Business Details
Primary Town Centerville, CA
Primary Business Cannery

Summary

Cannery in Centerville in 1921. Mostly juices. Also had "plant at Pittsburg":http://books.google.com/books?id=pQRNAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA197&lpg=RA1-PA197&dq=f.e.booth+centerville&source=bl&ots=wltlQyVou-&sig=nNlG28H0EonN1DI94ImMzin1R1g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u0q3Udj0FKq6igLqzoGYAQ&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=f.e.booth%20centerville&f=false


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Details

Initially built in 1917 according to "history of Fremont":http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2011-08-02&file=1917+++TCV.txt

November 1921 Canning Age Probably around in the 1930's, according to "Fremont history story":http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2008-08-27&file=EarlyFarm+UC+History.txt They were processing tomatoes.

Two miles northeast of Newark on Western Pacific Railroad Cannery burned in November 1959 according to USGS. Comments on that Geocaching site suggest that the Pittsburg plant canned salmon.