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Californian Cotton Mills circa 1911. In it's heyday, it employed 700 people who worked in thirty buildings. The main building was seven hundred by eight hundred feet, the largest industrial building in Alameda County at the time. Most buildings have been demolished, although a few remain near 23rd Avenue and Highway 880.