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- The fire danger makes it like a giant powder keg.
- During both World Wars Hercules Powder Company, along with Giant Powder Works in neighboring Pinole, supplied the US Navy with explosives through the Port Chicago Magazine ( location of the infamous Port Chicago disaster in 1944 ) which became the now closed Concord Naval Weapons Station.
- It had a dynamite and gunpowder works ( the Giant Powder Company, closed in 1960, now the site of Point Pinole Regional Shoreline ), the last active whaling station in the country at Point Molate ( closed in 1971 ), and one of the world's largest wineries ( Winehaven ), closed by Prohibition in 1919.