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  2. Imperial Sugar - Wikipedia

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    Imperial Sugar Company is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana. The company was established in 1843 and has undergone ownership changes multiple times. The current name, Imperial Sugar Company, was established after a change in ownership in 1907.

  3. Sugar industry of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Sugar beets are the other leading raw material for manufactured sugar in the United States. This is a sturdy crop grown in a wide variety of temperate climatic conditions and planted annually. Sugar beets can be stored for a short while after harvest, but must be processed before sucrose deterioration occurs.

  4. Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The Levi Jordan Plantation is a historical site and building, located on Farm to Market Road 521, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city of Brazoria, in the U.S. state of Texas. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved Black people, it was one of the largest sugar and cotton producing plantations in Texas during the mid-19th century ...

  5. Category:Sugar plantations in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Sugar Land, Texas This page was last edited on 4 February 2016, at 05:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  6. Don-Tol, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Don-Tol is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Wharton County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The community is located along FM 1301 southeast of Boling. There is a Don-Tol sign on FM 1301 at County Road 100. The name was used by Mexican workers to address William Toliver Taylor, the owner of a post-Civil War sugar cane plantation.

  7. Hawkins Ranch - Wikipedia

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    The Hawkins Ranch was established by James Boyd Hawkins in 1846. [2] It was a sugarcane plantation, with 101 African American slaves by 1860. [2] [3] In December 1863, during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Confederate States Army General John B. Magruder was inspecting coastal defenses in the area and "stopp[ed] awhile at Hawkins' plantation and other hospitable places."

  8. List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Ruins of the Annaberg sugar plantation. 81000089 Brown Bay Plantation Historic District: July 23, 1981 Brown Bay: Saint John 78000269 Cinnamon Bay Plantation: July 11, 1978 Cruz Bay: Saint John 78000270 Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins: March 30, 1978 Cruz Bay Saint John Example of an 18th-century rum factory, and ruins of a sugar plantation ...

  9. Varner–Hogg Plantation State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Varner raised corn, cattle and sugar cane on the land, and enslaved at least two people there. [5] Varner may have distilled rum from the sugar cane. [3] Columbus Patton built the plantation house to face Varner Creek. This is now the rear entrance to the house. In 1834, Varner sold his holdings to Columbus R. Patton, representing his father ...