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57-535: The Lake Ontario, Auburn and New York Railroad , chartered in 1852, had graded a line between Fair Haven and Auburn, New York , but ran out of money without ever laying track. The new Southern Central Railroad was chartered on September 6, 1865, to complete this work and build a line from Fair Haven due south to Owego, New York , where it could interchange traffic with the Erie Railroad . The railroad opened between Owego and Auburn on March 8, 1870. The Erie

114-452: A depth of only 2 feet (0.6 m), is located in the northwest corner of the bay out of the main channel. There are two active marinas on the bay, Fair Point at the north end and Chinook Harbor at the south end. NY Route 104A passes through the village. Fair Haven Beach State Park is located on Lake Ontario at the northern edge of the village. As of the census of 2000, there were 884 people, 395 households, and 259 families residing in

171-651: A former building destroyed by fire, was united with the local Methodist church in 1928. It is now the Fair Haven Community Church . In the late 1920s land acquisitions had begun for creation of Fair Haven Beach State Park with construction starting around 1930 using labor provided by the Civilian Conservation Corps . The Little Red School House Museum located at 1294 State Route 104A, Sterling, New York preserves Fair Haven's Railroad heritage with two floors of exhibits and

228-401: A functioning railroad hand pump car that visitors are welcome to ride. Camping, swimming, fishing and recreational boating are popular now, and the bay is ringed with cottages and year-round residences. There has been an active yacht club on the west shore for over a century, and many sailboats are seen during the summer. The Pleasant Beach Hotel, located on the east shore, opened in 1910 and

285-536: A further abandonment between Cato and Auburn, New York in 1957. In 1968, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, now under Pennsylvania Railroad control, abandoned the branch between Auburn and Moravia, New York . In the last years of Lehigh Valley operation, the line north of Owego was split into two secondary tracks: The remaining Auburn Branch between Sayre and Owego was not included in Conrail , given

342-449: A license fee of $ 750,000/year through 2007. On August 13, 2012, it was announced that Tesoro would purchase ARCO and its refinery for $ 2.5 billion. The deal came under fire because of increasing fuel prices. Many activists urged state and federal regulators to block the sale because of concerns that it would reduce competition and could lead to higher fuel prices at ARCO stations (ARCO stations make up more than half of all stations with

399-572: A much smaller open-pit mine east of the defunct Berkeley Pit. ARCO was the responsible party (by its ownership of Anaconda Copper at the time operations were terminated) for the largest U.S. Superfund site —a site that takes in the towns of Butte and Anaconda, and 120 miles (190 km) of the Clark Fork River including Milltown Dam . The region's water and soil were polluted by a century of mining and smelting. Chemicals of concern include many heavy metals and arsenic. On 7 February 2008,

456-429: A port on the south shore of Lake Ontario. The openings in the sand bars on Little Sodus Bay were widened and protected by jetties in the middle of the 19th century, thus improving the shipping capabilities of Fair Haven. The west pier was later marked with a wooden outer lighthouse with a fourth order Fresnel lens and in 1873 a light keepers house was built on shore which still stands. Sometime later an inner lighthouse

513-646: A section devoted to the work of Edna Williams containing a biography by June MacArthur, curator for the Edna Williams photographic collection. Cottage Farm , on Richmond Avenue next to the Community Church, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Fair Haven is located at 43°19′27″N 76°42′19″W  /  43.32417°N 76.70528°W  / 43.32417; -76.70528 (43.324175, -76.705154). This

570-467: A sponsor of the just-moved Sacramento Kings basketball franchise and had obtained the long-term naming rights for both their temporary and permanent homes, Original ARCO Arena and the purpose-built ARCO Arena . After BP acquired ARCO in 2000, BP decided not to renew the naming rights to the arena when the sponsorship was due to expire in February 2011. During the 1980s and 1990s, ARCO had sponsored

627-514: A sudden drop in the price of copper to below seventy cents a pound, the lowest in years, caused ARCO to suspend all operations in Butte, Montana . By 1983, only six years after acquiring rights to the " Richest Hill on Earth ", the Berkeley Pit was completely idle. By 1986, some ARCO properties were sold to billionaire industrialist Dennis Washington , whose company, Montana Resources, operates

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684-581: A transaction fee of initially 10 cents for those sales while maintaining cash-only sales at the previous low price. In the beginning of the 1990s, a subsidiary, ARCO Power Technologies, later Advanced Power Technologies (APTI), was the primary contractor for the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP Project). ARCO having hired Bernard Eastlund led to conspiracy theories about weather control and warfare. In March 1997, ARCO also leased almost all

741-463: A week. During each event, which was relayed from KKNU in Springfield , the same commercial advertisement for ARCO/ BP gasoline could be heard, along with the words "This test has been brought to you by ARCO". Further investigation by the primary station transmitting the commercial revealed that the spot had been produced using an audio clip of an actual EAS header which had been modified to lower

798-494: Is 31 miles (50 km) north of Auburn and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Oswego . Kingston, Ontario , Canada, is 55 miles (89 km) to the north across Lake Ontario. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.6 km ), of which 1.7 square miles (4.5 km ) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.0 km ), or 39.96%, is water. Fair Haven

855-740: Is a brand of gasoline stations owned by Marathon Petroleum . BP , which formerly owned the brand, uses it in Northern California , Oregon and Washington , while Marathon has rights for the rest of the United States and Mexico . ARCO was established in 1966 as the Atlantic Richfield Company, an independent oil and gas company formed from the merger of Atlantic Petroleum and the Richfield Oil Corporation . From 1966 to 2000,

912-672: Is known for its low-priced gasoline compared to other national brands, mainly because of an early 1980s business decision to emphasize cost cutting (cash/debit-only policy) and alternative sources of income (ampm). ARCO is headquartered in La Palma, California . Tesoro was renamed Andeavor in 2017, and shortly afterwards introduced the ARCO brand for the first time in Mexico by the opening of ARCO branded stations in Tijuana . The introduction of

969-462: Is located around Little Sodus Bay, a bay on the south shore of Lake Ontario . The bay is bounded on the west, east and south by drumlins and on the north by Lake Ontario. The lake level is 245 feet (75 m) above sea level, and the bay averages 30 feet (9.1 m) in depth with several protected coves and anchorages. One well marked reef hazard ("Grass Island"), approximately 800 feet (240 m) long (N-S) and 100 feet (30 m) wide (E-W) with

1026-571: Is still in operation today. The history of Fair Haven has been well documented by photographer Edna Williams (1883-1967) and several writers, most recently Robert Kolsters who has two books, Looking Back at Fair Haven ( ISBN   978-0-9726841-2-5 ), loaded with historic pictures and other information. There is an active historical association in nearby Sterling that operates a museum in the Red Schoolhouse. Susan Peterson Gately ( Passages on Inland Waters ISBN   0-9646149-2-8 ) has

1083-516: The Berkeley Pit and the Anaconda, Montana Smelter. ARCO founder Robert Orville Anderson stated "he hoped Anaconda's resources and expertise would help him launch a major shale-oil venture , but that the world oil glut and the declining price of petroleum made shale oil moot". The purchase turned out to be a regrettable decision for ARCO. A lack of experience with hard-rock mining and

1140-574: The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced that prolonged litigation with ARCO ended when ARCO agreed to pay $ 187 million to finance natural resource restoration activities. Anaconda Copper still nominally exists, but only as a massive environmental liability for BP. Atlantic Richfield Co and its then parent BP America agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by about 700 current and former residents of Yerington, Nevada, who lived near

1197-707: The ARCO brand and other American brands in Mexico came after Mexico ended the monopoly of state-owned Pemex . In spring of 2018, Andeavor began rebranding some SuperAmerica branded stations in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota to ARCO. Andeavor was acquired by Marathon Petroleum in 2018. Following the acquisition, Marathon hinted at keeping the ARCO brand name while rebranding Andeavor's other brands either as standard Marathon stations (for franchised locations) or Speedway locations (for company-owned locations); stations still owned by BP may either remain as ARCO or rebranded as Amoco , as BP does not own

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1254-526: The ARCO brand on its stations in northern California, Oregon and Washington which will be continued to be supplied from BP's Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state. BP has retained the Atlantic Richfield Company as a subsidiary to handle environmental claims against BP for the clean-up of former Anaconda mine properties. ARCO was formed by the merger of East Coast –based Atlantic Refining and California-based Richfield Oil Corporation in 1966;

1311-585: The Anaconda mine built in 1941. The company paid in Nevada up to $ 19.5M for settlement. EPA tested in 2009 wells and found that 79% of the wells north of mine had dangerous levels of uranium and/or arsenic. In September 2010, the staff of KCST-FM in Florence, Oregon , noticed that the station's Emergency Alert System (EAS) equipment would repeatedly unmute as if receiving an incoming EAS message several times

1368-601: The Atlantic Richfield Company, doing business as ARCO, was an independent American oil company with operations in the United States, Indonesia, the North Sea , the South China Sea and Mexico . After its acquisition of Anaconda Copper Mining Company in 1977, ARCO had owned hard rock mines in several western states, which has created environmental clean-up liabilities to the company to this day even after

1425-462: The BP territories of the northwest. It has more than 1,300 gas stations in the western part of the United States, and recently (as of 2017 ) five gas stations in northwestern Mexico. After the Atlantic Richfield Company acquired Sinclair Oil in 1969, Atlantic Richfield decided to merger their three separate service brands into one and call it ARCO. $ 60 million was spent in the rebranding effort. Over

1482-662: The District of Columbia to Shell for an undisclosed price and also sold 576 service stations in Pennsylvania and New York plus a refinery in Pennsylvania for $ 420 million to Dutch trader John Deuss , who rebranded the stations to their former name Atlantic . Deuss later sold the stations plus refinery, pipelines and terminals in 1988 to Sunoco for $ 513 million. In 1986, ARCO began to accept bank ATM cards (which later became debit cards) at its stations by adding on

1539-526: The annual ARCO Concerts in the Sky summer jazz series at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Thornton F. Bradshaw, 1966–1981 William F. Kieschnick Jr, 1981–1985 Lodwrick M. Cook , 1985 Robert E. Wycoff, 1986–1993 Michael R. Bowlin, 1993–1998 Michael E. Wiley, 1998–2000 Robert O. Anderson , 1966–1985 Lodwrick M. Cook , 1986–1995 Michael R. Bowlin, 1995–2000 Currently,

1596-409: The average family size was 2.67. In the village, the population was spread out, with 20.2% under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 23.9% from 25 to 44, 29.6% from 45 to 64, and 21.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.3 males. The median income for a household in the village

1653-638: The bankrupt Lehigh Valley Railroad. In April, 1978, the Lehigh Valley further abandoned the portion between Locke and Dryden, New York . A final abandonment in 1979 removed the line between Dryden and Harford Mills, New York . On January 1, 1980, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad replaced Conrail as the operator of the line north of Owego. In 1981, the Tioga County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) acquired

1710-485: The brand name ARCO is being used by Marathon Petroleum as a brand of gasoline service stations in the United States and Mexico. In Northern California, Oregon, and Washington states, the ARCO brand is licensed for exclusive use to BP for the sale of gasoline in those areas. Any independent station can adopt the ARCO brand in any territory that is covered by the Marathon Petroleum distribution network outside

1767-544: The coal dock at North Fair Haven and cut-back the northern end of the line to Fair Haven in 1937. After World War II , the Lehigh Valley gradually-abandoned the branch. In 1952–1953, it further cut-back the branch from Fair Haven to Cato, New York . The construction of the New York State Thruway , in 1954, eliminated the interchange with the New York Central at Weedsport, New York , leading to

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1824-622: The commercial from airplay. Starting in 1965, ARCO sponsored the ARCO Jesse Owens Games, an annual track meet for children aged ten to fifteen that was started by Olympics gold medalist Jesse Owens . In 1980, ARCO became a sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympics that were held in Los Angeles and had helped financed the refurbishing of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . In 1985, ARCO became

1881-563: The company's name is an acronym of the two companies' names. A merger in 1969, brought in Sinclair Oil Corporation . In the 1970s and 80s, ARCO was one of the largest companies in the world, consistently a top 20 company of the Fortune 500. After its subsequent fracture in the late 1980s and early 90s, ARCO became a subsidiary of UK-based BP plc in 2000 through its BP West Coast Products LLC (BPWCP) affiliate. Due to

1938-691: The course of 2004 and 2005, ARCO signs were replaced with signs that still had the ARCO spark, but BP's Helios (BP's new white, yellow, and green "sunburst" mark named after the Greek Sun god, replacing the old British Petroleum shield mark) is also located on the sign. A new tagline "ARCO—part of BP" also appeared on some signs and advertisements. ARCO was known for sponsoring the ARCO Arena (now Sleep Train Arena ) in Sacramento, California , with

1995-454: The east shore of Little Sodus Bay. The coal was then loaded and shipped by sail freighter to Canada and Ice was harvested from the bay and shipped back by rail to New York City . The trestle was torn down in 1937, a year after the spur was abandoned. When its use as a port waned, the village continued to flourish as a prime recreational destination thanks to the new State Park. The Presbyterian church, whose brick building of 1882 replaced

2052-629: The end of 1949. Under the Lehigh Valley, the line was known first as the Lehigh and New York Branch ; then later as the Auburn Branch . The line from North Fair Haven to Sayre measured 115 miles (185 km). It interchanged with several other railroads, including the New York Central Railroad , New York, Ontario and Western Railway , Erie Railroad and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad . The Lehigh Valley abandoned

2109-563: The gas stations of the (now) Santa Fe Springs, California –based independent Thrifty Oil group of 250 stations found throughout California after a damaging price war which the independent Thrifty was unable to win. On July 5, 1990, an explosion at an ARCO Chemical Co. facility in Channelview, Texas killed 17 people and injured five others. On April 18, 2000, ARCO was purchased by BP and completely merged into BP operations. There were two exceptions due to FTC requirements: ARCO Alaska

2166-523: The header's volume and presumably prevent it from triggering false positive alert reactions in EAS equipment. The spot was distributed nationally, and after it had once been identified as the source of the false EAS equipment trips, various stations around the country reported having had similar experiences. After a widespread notification by the Society of Broadcast Engineers was issued, ARCO's ad agency withdrew

2223-502: The increasing cost in processing credit card sales, ARCO eliminated its own private credit card program and also the acceptance of all bank credit cards, such as Visa and MasterCard, in 1982. In this way, the company was able to pass the resulting savings on to its dealers, which resulted in the company becoming the only major gasoline retailer to accept only cash at its stations. In 1985, ARCO's East Coast stations were not doing very well so ARCO sold 400 service stations in eight states and

2280-528: The laboratory experienced significant contraction. It finally closed shortly after the 2000 acquisition of ARCO by BP. During the 1970s, the United States government and states such as California sought to encourage companies to invest in the development of low-pollution renewable energy sources. Oil companies such as BP, Shell, and ARCO began to look into photovoltaics . In 1977, ARCO purchased Chatsworth-based Solar Technology International, renamed it ARCO Solar, and moved it to Camarillo. In 1982, ARCO constructed

2337-706: The line from the trustees of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; then leased it back to the D&;H. The D&H terminated the lease in 1985, after closure of the Arco Petroleum Products storage facility in Harford Mills. The Tioga Central Railroad operated both freight and excursion service on the line from 1986–1992, when the IDA replaced them with the Owego and Harford Railway . The O&H continues to operate

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2394-532: The line to Fair Haven finally opened on December 1, 1871. Financial problems led to the Lehigh Valley leasing the company in 1887. The debts were such that, in 1895, the Lehigh Valley formed a subsidiary, the Lehigh and New York Railroad , to buy the Southern Central in a foreclosure sale, after which the Lehigh Valley leased the Lehigh and New York. The latter company was merged into the Lehigh Valley at

2451-462: The line today. Fair Haven, New York Fair Haven is a village located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in Cayuga County, New York , United States. As of the 2020 census , its population was 760. Fair Haven is within the town of Sterling and is northwest of Syracuse . The village is on Little Sodus Bay, an arm of Lake Ontario. The village first gained prominence as

2508-665: The lowest fuel prices in California). On June 3, 2013, BP sold ARCO and the Carson Refinery to Tesoro for $ 2.5 billion. BP sold its Southern California terminals (Vinvale, Colton, San Diego, Hathaway, and Hynes) to Tesoro Logistics LP, including the Carson Storage Facility. BP sold the ampm brand to Tesoro for Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada. BP exclusively licensed the ARCO rights from Tesoro for Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. ARCO

2565-492: The mines were closed in the early 1980s. In 2000, BP Amoco (now BP) acquired ARCO for $ 26.8 billion. ARCO's retail and marketing operations were kept separate while the rest of the company was integrated into BP. In 2012, BP sold its Carson refinery, 800 ARCO stations in California, Arizona and Nevada, and the ownership of the ARCO brand to Tesoro for $ 2.5 billion while paying Tesoro for an exclusive license for use of

2622-647: The parallel Erie Lackawanna Railway main line, and was abandoned after April 1, 1976. Although the New York Department of Transportation spent $ 832,000 to rehabilitate the line north of Owego, neither of the two secondary tracks was included in Conrail. Additional subsidies from the State of New York led to Conrail operation of the entire Sayre–Mead line, although the line was abandoned north of Locke, New York after August 31, 1976. Ownership remained with

2679-406: The population. There were 395 households, out of which 21.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.7% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% were non-families. 27.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and

2736-537: The rights to the BP name due to licensing-based reasons in the Western United States. Following the merger, ARCO and Marathon began to be marketed together with Marathon stations replacing various Andeavor brands in the Western markets (including Exxon , Mobil and Shell stations under license with ExxonMobil and Shell , respectively) while ARCO returned to Eastern markets for the first time since

2793-719: The tallest twin towers in the world until the completion of the World Trade Center in New York City . In 1986, joint owners ARCO and Bank of America sold the buildings to Shuwa Investments Corp., the American subsidiary of Shuwa Co. of Tokyo, for $ 650 million while both remained tenants in their respective named towers. ARCO moved out of the building in 1999. The building was renamed City National Plaza in 2005. ARCO's Oil & Gas division headquarters were in downtown Dallas, Texas . The headquarters' building

2850-403: The village. The population density was 503.3 inhabitants per square mile (194.3/km ). There were 727 housing units at an average density of 413.9 per square mile (159.8/km ). The racial makeup of the village was 98.19% White , 0.11% African American , 0.68% Native American , 0.11% Asian , 0.34% from other races , and 0.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.57% of

2907-709: The world's first photovoltaic central utility power plant, a 1-megawatt facility near Hesperia. Unfortunately for ARCO, the solar panel industry was costly and not very profitable, so it was looking for a buyer by 1989. It finally sold the company to the German company Siemens for $ 36 million in 1990. In 1987, ARCO Chemical Co. was spun off and taken public, with ARCO selling 19.9% to the public. Lyondell Chemical Company (now LyondellBasell ), bought ARCO Chemical in 1998 for $ 5.6 billion including ARCO's entire 82.2% ownership stake. ARCO merged with Anaconda Copper Mining Company of Montana in 1977. Anaconda's holdings included

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2964-416: Was $ 36,382, and the median income for a family was $ 39,091. Males had a median income of $ 37,917 versus $ 26,250 for females. The per capita income for the village was $ 18,287. About 4.3% of families and 8.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 9.6% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over. Arco Petroleum Products ARCO ( / ˈ ɑːr k oʊ / AR -koh )

3021-663: Was a 46-story office building designed by architect I.M. Pei , the ARCO Tower . The building is now called Energy Plaza . From the 1960s, until the end of the twentieth century, ARCO operated a highly significant research and development center in Plano, Texas, on land purchased in 1964 by the Atlantic Refinery Company. Its golden age was arguably in the early to mid 1980s, when it was led by Robert L. Hirsch . A standout example of ARCO's research at that time

3078-491: Was added. The Southern Central Railroad served Fair Haven, from 1872 until 1887 when it was absorbed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad . Summer tourists arrived by rail from Auburn and other inland towns to enjoy the parks on the waterfront.which were known for having the very best sand beaches on Lake Ontario. The railroad also carried coal up from Athens, Pennsylvania to a 1500 foot wooden trestle built on

3135-454: Was at that time still a broad-gauge railroad, which made interchange with the standard gauge Southern Central difficult. With financial assistance from the Lehigh Valley Railroad , the Southern Central built south from Owego toward the state line at Athens, Pennsylvania (later Sayre ), and an interchange with the Pennsylvania and New York Railroad , a Lehigh Valley Railroad company. This extension opened on January 3, 1871. The northern part of

3192-583: Was sold by BP to Phillips Petroleum , and ARCO Pipe Line Company was acquired by TEPPCO , a subsidiary of Enterprise Products . From 1972 to 2000, ARCO's global corporate headquarters were in the ARCO Plaza in Los Angeles at the corner of 5th and Flower Streets, the site of Richfield's former headquarters . Upon completion in 1972, the ARCO Plaza towers were the tallest buildings in the city for one year before being overtaken by Aon Center , and were

3249-570: Was the pioneering study on 4D seismic surveying by Robert Greaves and Terry Fulp. This consisted of repeated 3D seismic surveys which successfully mapped the effects of enhanced oil recovery processes as a function of time. This work was recognized for its seminal importance over 20 years later by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists . Besides Greaves and Fulp, the laboratory produced a number of other distinguished alumni during this golden age, including scientists John Castagna , Michael Batzle, Geoffrey Dorn, and Marius Vassiliou . In later years

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