Ames Shovel Shops to 2009 List of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
On April 28, 2009, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Ames Shovel Shops to its 2009 list of America's 11 most endangered historic places.
The Ames Shovel Shops complex is an important piece of our nation's industrial heritage and is threatened by development.The complex is an eight-acre site comprising 15 granite and wood buildings dating from.jpg)
1852 through 1928. The iron-bladed shovels fabricated at the com-plex by generations of the Ames family literally built America; Ames shovels were used during the California Gold Rush, the Civil War and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Today, new owners want to tear down some of the site's historic buildings and radically alter others as part of a proposed mixed-use development. see additional photos
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