This factory was known as the Pacific Coast Sugar Company in 1887-1888; the plant, later incoporated as the Alameda Sugar Company, existed in what was then Alvarado, CA, (now incorporated into Union City, CA) from 1889-1924;

This plant was located across the street from the Standard Sugar Refining Company Alvarado Plant (1879) that was damaged by a boiler accident in 1886;

This plant suffered extensive damage in the April 1906 San Francisco Earthquake; the plant's concrete holding tanks ruptured pouring 1,000,000 pounds of molasses into the nearby Alameda Creek;

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