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Remember When You Could Buy Garden City Made Sugar
Barbara Oringderf details the rise and fall of Garden City’s landmark sugar refinery, built in 1906 by United States Land and Sugar Company. The plant processed beets for 50 years, employed hundreds, and spurred irrigation, electricity, and a short line railroad. It closed in 1955, with the factory building demolished, leaving a legacy of local industry and immigrant labor in Finney and surrounding counties.
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Barbara Oringderf
Garden City
United States Land and Sugar Company
Kansas
High Plains
United States
Company
Lake McKinney
Deerfield
Garden
Finney
Kearny Counties
Wheatland Electric
Garden City Western Railway
Garden City Western
Kearny
Scott Counties
Emporia
Renick
Renick Brothers