![]() (As of January 1, 2007, state legislation enabled the city to manage its own riverfront for commercial development and subsequent port operations). The original town site fronts on the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta, reflecting its origins as a deep water channel river port. tons per year of steel to over 175 customers in the Western U. As of 1999, the facility employed 970 workers and shipped over 1.6 million U.S. Together they invested $450 million turning the Pittsburg plant into a modern flat-products mill, renamed as USS-Posco. The parent company (by 1986, renamed as USS Company) had merged with Korean Pohang Iron and Steel Company. The plant continued to grow until the early 1950s, reaching a peak staff of 5,200 employees when the markets for its products crashed. In 1930, Columbia became a subsidiary of U.S. It made steel castings for the dredging, lumber and shipping industries. In 1910, Columbia Steel opened its California steel plant in Pittsburg with one foundry and a crew of 60 employees. Ĭolumbia Steel plant on Loveridge Road in Pittsburg, was established in 1910 This rechristening came at a time when the name of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was more commonly spelled without the "h". The name was selected to honor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the two cities' shared a common steel and mining industrial heritage. Pittsburg, originally settled in 1839, was called first "New York Landing", then "Black Diamond", before citizens voted on "Pittsburg" on February 11, 1911. Because of the industrial potential of the site, a name change to Pittsburg was proposed in 1909. With the discovery of coal in the nearby town of Nortonville, the place became a port for coaling, and adopted the name Black Diamond, after the mining firm that built the Black Diamond Coal Mining Railroad from there to Nortonville. Stevenson (from New York) bought the Rancho Los Medanos land grant, and laid out a town he called New York of the Pacific.
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