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is a concrete oven built in 1911 in the style of
Mexican adobe ovens. It was used to bake bread daily from April 1911 through July 1912 to feed 30 state prison inmates and their guards as they worked on a stretch of road in Plateau Canyon.
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The oven is 7 feet long, nearly 5 feet wide, 4 feet tall and sits halfway between
Plateau Creek and
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