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Building History

This was an early sugar beet processing plant built by Claus Spreckels, who would become the sugar king of California in the last quarter of the 19th century; according to local newspaper reports, the plant had opened by 11/1874. Machinery developed for E.H. Dyer's first beet sugar factory in Alvarado (Union City), CA, was sold to Spreckels's Soquel operation in 1874.

PCAD id: 5791