California Beet Sugar Company

The California Beet Sugar Company was the first successful sugar beet factory in the United States. It was located in Alvarado, California (now part of Union City) and operated from 1870 to 1873. Although the company shut down after only three years, the company's owners would go on to found a number of other factories in the Sacramento Valley, in Santa Cruz County, and in the Alvarado area itself. The latter location would host a series of sugar refineries that would continue to be active in the area until the closure of Holly Sugar's Union City plant in 1975. The site of the former factory is today marked by a California Historical Landmark.

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