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Healdsburg, California: 800 Pound Hammer

Features a 21-foot-long redwood handle and a six-foot-high steel hammer head. It was somehow stolen without a trace, and the hammer head was only found months later, buried. It was attached to a new handle in 2019.

Healdsburg Community Center

Address:
1557 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, CA
Directions:
Healdsburg Community Center. US-101 exit 505. Turn east onto Dry Creek Rd, cross the train tracks, then turn left at the stoplight onto Healdsburg Ave. Drive north a half-mile, then turn left into the parking lot of the Healdsburg Community Center. You'll see the hammer.
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Giant hammer.

800 Pound Hammer

Huuuuuuge hammer! There's a parking lot right beside it, so that's helpful.

[Liz, 07/11/2021]

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