Spreckels Sugar Company
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Spreckels Sugar Company was a sugar beet refiner that for many years controlled much of the U.S. West Coast refined sugar market. Spreckels Sugar was founded by entrepreneur, industrialist, newspaper publisher, and railroad executive Claus Spreckels in the late 1800s. Spreckels was acquired by Imperial Holly in 1996.
Spreckels founded the company town of Spreckels, California, just south of Salinas, USA, in the late 1800s, but started to relenquish control when they started selling homes in the community to they public c. 1925.
When it was completed in 1899, "Factory 1" was the largest sugar refinery in the world. Shipping to/from the plant was mostly by a private Spreckels-owned narrow-gauge railroad system to/from the docks at Moss Landing, California.
Spreckels Blvd. outside Salinas, as well as Spreckels Rd. outside King City, California still bear witness to the mark Spreckels Sugar made in the area.
[edit] References
- Imperial Sugar Company history of Spreckels Sugar Company
- Santa Cruz Public Libraries "The Spreckels Era in Rio Del Mar, 1872--1922" by Allen Collins
- Historical marker at the Spreckels city limits.
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