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Hapgood-Hume Company
Historical place in Yolo County, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hapgood-Hume Company was a Salmon cannery and now a historical site in West Sacramento, California in Yolo County. The site of the former Hapgood-Hume Company is a California Historical Landmark No. 1040 listed on April 1, 2009. The Hapgood-Hume Company was the First Pacific Coast Salmon Cannery founded on April 1, 1864, on the Sacramento River, closed in 1873 in Washington state.[1] The site of the Hapgood-Hume Company was a National Register of Historic Places, #66000938, from April 6, 1964, to July 14, 2004. The Hapgood-Hume Company was formed by Robert Deniston Hume, William Hume, John Hume, and George Hume, with a friend Andrew Hapgood. All of founders of the company came from Maine. Hapgood had been a tinsmith and a fisherman in Maine, arriving in California in 1864.[2][3]
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![]() The first salmon cannery in North America, Hapgood-Hume, was founded 1864 on a Sacramento River barge. | |
Location | Sacramento River, West Sacramento, California |
Coordinates | 38.58312°N 121.50896°W / 38.58312; -121.50896 |
Built | 1864, 160 years ago |
Architect | Hume brothers |
Architectural style(s) | Cannery barge |
Designated | April 1, 2009 |
Reference no. | 1040 |