Talk:Elk, Mendocino County, California

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At the north end of the Greenwood Creek Beach bluff trail, two picnic tables sit within an overgrown massive round concrete and steel enclosure. It resembles the remnants of ww1 and ww2 gun emplacements on Washington's Whidbey Island, Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia, and on the north headland of SF's golden gate. Was there an artillery battery here? --~~- deangup

Elk doesn't appear on the list of United States locations defended by coastal artillery; and it lacks the strategic significance of listed locations. The structure you describe is more likely associated with cable machinery for transferring lumber to ships and transferring heavy machinery (like railway locomotives) from the ships to the sawmill.Thewellman (talk) 17:12, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The circular concrete form was the base of the refuse burner at the Daniels & Ross sawmill, built in 1952 and dismantled in 1967. My brother Raymond helped pour that concrete.

Also the wire chute used to load ships at Elk were out on the western end of an offshore table rock. This information would be available at the visitor center at that state park. 47.224.163.240 (talk) 19:27, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]