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The course of oil production changed in 1899 when the Olinda area became the first site in California to use the technique of drilling with the hole full of water. Developed as a source of fuel oil for the Santa Fe Railroad, Olinda became a bustling boomtown at the turn of the century. Its demise came with construction of Carbon Canyon Dam in 1959.
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