Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weldons, California

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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Sandstein 16:46, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The last sentence gets down to most of the truth: "Weldons was a passenger stop on the Ventura and Ojai Valley Railroad[.]" The rest is hidden in a reference footnote: it is the location of the the Ventura City water treatment plant. Other than that, well, searching has a lot of noise, but legit hits don't give any impression that this was a town of any sort; at present, the waterworks are on the west side of the road, and some sort of orchard is on the other. Mangoe (talk) 01:31, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:38, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:38, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• It's a shame that Weldon Canyon ignores this Weldon Canyon, where the San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct existed until 1900, where Weldon Canyon Creek (intermittently) flows, where veins of asphalt were reported in a 1901 survey, where Union Oil drilled for oil in 1951, and which developers tried to turn into a landfill in 1996. But then there's the local businessman J. M. Sharp who bought the Weldon Ranch in 1882, as noted in the History of Ventura County, California, and indeed the Peoples Lumber Company whose manager, one J. M. Sharp, mined shale in the canyons.

  Maybe the railway isn't the important bit at all.

  Uncle G (talk) 12:30, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Greenwood, Roberta S.; Gessler, N. (1968). "The Mission San Buenaventura Aqueduct with Particular Reference to Fragments at Weldon Canyon". Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly. 4 (4): 61–86.
  • Wood, B. D. (1912). "Weldon Canyon Creek". Gazetteer of Surface Waters in the Pacific Coast Draining Basin and the Great Basin, California. Water-supply Paper. Vol. 296. Washington: United States Geological Survey. p. 233.
  • Crump, John (1957). "The History of the Peoples Lumber Company". Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly. 3 (1). Ventura County Historical Society: 12.

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