PCAD - Chino Valley Sugar Beet Factory, Chino, CA

Chino, CA

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Building History

The sugar beet was introduced as a crop in the United States in 1857. The beet's drought-resistence caused it to be widely culivated in CA. On some farms, sugar beets were planted between rows of citrus trees to maximize acreage-yield.

This sugar-beet processing plant was owned by the Chino Valley agricultural pioneer, Richard Gird (1836-1910); in 1881, Gird purchased the 47,000-acre Rancho del Chino, and six years later he sub-divided 24,000 acres of this land.

PCAD id: 4052

Publications

Gird, Richard, "Sugar beet culture in southern California", Land of Sunshine, 17 - 18, 6/1894. Williams, G.H., "The sugar beet", Land of Sunshine, 32 - 34, 6/1895. "Beet sugar factory at Chino", Los Angeles Daily Journal, 1, 12/12/1890. "Chino", Los Angeles Times, 5, 1891-08-26. "Chino's sugar beet industry", Los Angeles Times, part VI: 4, 8/28/1910. Jensen, Carol A., "Chino's Agricultural Development", Pomona Valley Historian, 9: 4, 141-142, 161, Fall 1973. "Chino Sugar beet sugar enterprise", Rural Californian, 76, 83, 2/1891. "Gird and the Chino Sugar Beet Factory", Rural Californian, 409 - 410, 413 - 414, 7/1891. "The Chino [sugar beet] factory being built", Rural Californian, 38, 1/1891. "Chino sugar beet factory", Rural Californian, 218 - 219, 5/1894. "The Chino Valley Sugar Beet Factory", Rural Californian, 542 - 544, 9/1891. "The Beet Sugar Industry", Rural Californian, 573, 10/1893.

Chino Valley Sugar Beet Factory, Chino, CA (1890-1891)

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