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Cameron Iron Works Plant At 1000 Silber Rd.


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On Interstate 10, the area that is now Marq*E Entertainment Center, a Walmart, and some other stuff, there used to be a huge-looking industrial plant of some sort in the late 1970s! It was downsized (partially demolished) in other shots (1989 and 1995) and completely gone by 2002 (with Marq*E to the south, the clearing of the lot and further development happened later). Cooper Cameron relating to the Former Cameron Iron Works Facility located at 1000 Silber Road in Houston, Harris County, Texas.

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For comparison, this is what it looks like now.

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Obviously this used to be something huge, but what was it?

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Houston Chronicle's archives was going pretty crazy on me, but I gathered that this plant shuttered in 1986 before the merger (they owned a smaller piece of land nearby on Post Oak, it's residential), and that they also owned a large plant on 290. Regardless, if it closed in 1986 it certainly explained why it was "downsized" by 1989.

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  • 2 years later...

What was the address of the facility? It looks like in 1944, the one building on the property that appears to have later been integrated into the complex has an address off of Silber Road, not Old Katy Road. Also, does anyone have any photos of the place?

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  • The title was changed to Cameron Iron Works Plant On Interstate 10
  • The title was changed to Cameron Iron Works Plant At 1000 Silber Rd.

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