Shipyard Acres, California

Shipyard Acres was a wartime neighborhood with a peak population of over 2,550 whom lived in nearly 400 plywood houses built to house worker families involved in the World War II effort building ships at Basalt Rock Company.[3] Other residents worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Napa State Hospital, Travis Air Force Base, the Benicia Arsenal and other private industries. Many of the residents had moved from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas as well as other states in order to seek employment. [4] It sprang up in 1943 and was dismantled in the mid-1950s. It was on the northwest corner of what is now Kaiser Road and Napa-Vallejo Highway. Some of the structures were moved a few miles west to the Cuttings Wharf area, resurrected, and are still in place near the marina.[5]