Hercules, California
Contra Costa County · Population 26,016 · Card no. 10165
A bay city named for the dynamite company that built it as a company town in 1881.
- The Hercules Powder Company made explosives here until 1977.
- Workers' cottages from the company era survive.
- The city is now largely residential and unusually diverse.
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