Holly Sugar, Santa Ana (site) (Santa Ana, California)

USA / California / Santa Ana / Santa Ana, California
 place with historical importance, production
Former location of the iconic Holly Sugar plant. It was built in 1912 by the Santa Ana Co-Operative Sugar Co. -- formed by James Irvine in 1911 so he could get better prices for his sugar beets -- and bought out by Holly in 1918. Orange County had four sugar factories during World War I, when the county was supplying a fifth of the nation's refined sugar. By 1930, only Santa Ana's, then owned by Holly Sugar Co., was still operating. Holly closed the plant in 1982 and it was demolished in 1983. Dyer Road is named after the designer and builder of the factory, the Dyer Company of Cincinnati, OH.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Sugar
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Coordinates:   33°42'37"N   117°51'20"W
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