PINOLE — The intertwined history of Pinole and Hercules and their connections to the crucial and dangerous dynamite industry that helped shape California and world history will be explored at a free ...

Railroad Avenue, Hercules: In 1881, the California Powder Works built a town along the shores of the San Pablo Bay. Founded for the purpose of manufacturing dynamite, it became the world's largest ...

The dynamite plant of the Hercules Powder Company suffered a fire and series of explosions on July 14, 1966. The damage to the plant was considerable. Seventy of the buildings at the 1,200-acre plant ...

EVERY SUBURB deserves a good old-fashioned hangout, but few subdivisions have a true Peach Pit/Cheers/Jack’s Bistro right in their backyard. The residents of one Hercules neighborhood, however, were ...

HATTIESBURG – For almost a century, the Hercules plant on West Seventh Street has stood as one of Hattiesburg’s most prominent landmarks. Built shortly after World War I, the facility started out with ...