Sugar Town

Ovid experienced a tremendous boom in 1925 when the Great Western Sugar Company built a sugar beet processing plant here. The plant closed in 1985 after the owners went bankrupt speculating on the silver market.The "dinkey," a steam-powered locomotive, shuttled ...

Historic Sugartown

Village of

Sugartown

~ c.1790 ~

Historic District

National Register of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of Spring Road and Sugartown Road, on the left when traveling east on Spring Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Los Alamitos Sugar Company and Town's Founding

The first sugar beet processing plant in Orange County was built here in 1897 on land donated by the Bixby Land Company. The industry brought jobs and development that created the new town of Los Alamitos. Although nematode infestation of ...