Leaders of the Native Sons of the Golden West, representing different areas of the State, join in prayer as part of the Native Sons’ dedication of the Imperial Valley’s Spreckles Sugar plant as a significant historical part of the Valley. The dedication was held Saturday, February 8, on the plant grounds along Highway 86 north of Imperial. The facility is the last operating sugar plant in California.
In the geographic center of the Imperial Valley,
strategically located to meet the needs of growers in both the northern and
southern ends of the Valley, stands California’s last operating sugar plant—a
monument to the past, a symbol for the present and a harbinger of the future.
The Spreckles Sugar plant, perhaps better known to longtime
residetns as Holly Sugar, towers over the Highway 86 corridor between El Centro
and Brawley just as it has since it was first built in 1947 to serve the needs
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