1901 Redwood City Salt Works acquires 1,784 acres and begins salt productions on areas still in use today for crystallizing salt.

1902 West Shores Salt Company begins production on lands now used as Cargill crystallizers.

1905 Stauffer Chemical Co. buys 90 percent of Redwood City Salt Works and West Shore Salt Company.

1928 Leslie Salt Company sells lands to Stauffer Chemical Co.

1941 Leslie Salt Co. acquires 1,452 acres from Stauffer Chemical Co. to build new, enlarged Redwood City plant.

1976 Redwood City plant site suspends harvest due to competition from Baja salt.

1977 Redwood City plant re-opens.

1978 Cargill Incorporated buys Leslie Salt Co.

1979 San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is created on 12,000 of 29,000 acres of salt company property in South Bay.

1983 Land sold to Lincoln properties to develop Seaport Center on former wash pond. Wash pond moved to present location.

1994 Redwood City plant suspends harvest due to competition.

1995 Redwood City plant re-opens.

1996 Redwood City plant suspends harvest due to El Nino rains, which last through May. Salt continues to be shipped from stack.

2002 Stack site is sold to Abbott Laboratories.

2004 Fifty acres are sold to create Westpoint Marina (due to open in 2007).

2005 First harvest since 1997.

2006 The Redwood City Saltworks community outreach process is announced as salt operations will be winding down over the next few years. DMB Associates joins with Cargill to conduct an unprecedented community outreach program to determine what the local community would like to see on the site.