1910 – Dec. 10 – Los Alamitos Sugar Factory Barbecue
Local oldtimers have cited that the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory would kick off its annual campaign — the opening of the factory to take in the just-harvested sugar beet crop…
Huguette Clark – daughter of Los Alamitos founder, dies at 104
On May 24, 2011, Huguette Clark, one of the world’s richest women and subject of many TV reports last fall, died at the age of 104. Worth over an estimated…
1896 – Development of the Sugar Factory – one news item at a time
JAN 1896 – Dyer and Capitain enter in agreement to sell bonds for the Cerritos Sugar Company. They agreed to sell enough bonds to raise $4. After that sum had…
Isais W. Hellman
Los Alamitos
Los Alamitos Sugar Factory
Phillip A. Stanton
Seal Beach
The Bixbys
The Clarks
The Land & Rivers
1896 – USGS map showing Los Alamitos area as it was
To the left is a late 1896 USGS map showing the lower portion of “the Downey” quadrangle, the upper portion of the Bolsa quadrangle and the west portion of the…
Biography: Frank Capitain, architect of the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory & town
18 JUN 1897 – Land of Sunshine: A Magazine of California and the Southwest. p42- One of the busiest men and the same time the pleasantest in all Southern California…
The Clarks – J. Ross Clark and William A.
1904 – W.A. and J. Ross Clark establish the Montana Land Company to manage lands northeast of Los Alamitos (present north Long Beach and Lakewood). 1905 – Clarks have completed…
Sep 30, 1900 – Clarks sue Bixbys over right of way for drainage of factory waste
Susan Hathaway Bixby loved her Rancho Los Alamitos adobe, but positively hated the stench caused by the effluent from the new sugar factory. What this article would most significantly seem…
Sep 30, 1900 – Clarks sue Bixbys over right of way for drainage of factory waste
Susan Hathaway Bixby loved her Rancho Los Alamitos adobe, but positively hated the stench caused by the effluent from the new sugar factory. What this article would most significantly seem…
October 9, 1897 – Anaheim Gazette: A Crackerjack Sugar Mill
Los Alamitos—A Crackerjack Sugar Mill. An infinity of noises smiting upon the ear. ceaseless, never-ending, repetitive; the hum of myriads of wheels, whirling with spokes indistinguishable; the sung of belts…
December 1897 – Sugar Beet report on Los Alamitos
The December 1897 issue of the Sugar Beet Planter’s correspondent had a couple references to s activities at the Los Alamitos Sugar Factory. In the first he wrote: The Champion…