Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy was owned by Alois (Louis) Denn, a Swiss emigrant who began operating a cheese dairy … Read more
Besides having the first sugar beet factory in Orange County, Los Alamitos also had one if its first dairy farms. The factory went out of business in 1926, but dairys stuck around until the early 1960s. The first local dairy was owned by Alois (Louis) Denn, a Swiss emigrant who began operating a cheese dairy … Read more
24 NOV 1900 – Beet Sugar Gazette , Vol 1, No. 10 (December 1900) Chicago Illinois, p18 LOS ALAMITOS, CAL. Editor Beet Sugar Gazette:—The unusually long drouth of this coast was terminated last Thursday, the 22d inst., by a genuine “sou’easter,” rain falling to the amount of 2.40 inches in less than ten hours, and … Read more
What is significant here is that the article indicates the strong presence of Mexican workers, who had apparently already replaced all the Japanese, and non-Hispanic whites in the fields. “In every field there may be seen bands of thinners, mostly Mexicans, and the farmer himself, with horse ahd cultivator, followed by bands of helpers with … Read more