Building History

James Hamilton and the Alta California Sugar Beet Company opened this factory at Hamilton City, CA, in 1906. This was the year that a US Post Office was set up in town, as well.

In 1909, the Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Thirty-Eighth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. II, stated of the Hamilton Sugar Beet Factory. "The Hamilton Sugar Beet Factory is located in Glenn County, and as a new industry in the Sacramento Valley is proving a success. This year it employed 300 men, and turned out a product valued at $265,000." (See Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Thirty-Eighth Session of the Legislature of the State of California,[Sacramento: W.W. Shannon, Superintendent State Printing, 1909], p. 80.)

Poor rainfall and the presence of pests in 1913, caused a shutdown of the Hamilton City plant, at this time owned by the Sacramento Valley Sugar Company. The Sacramento Valley Sugar Company purchased the Hamilton City processing facility in 1908.

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