Utah Idaho Sugar Company Factory

Sugar came from beets, and beets came from Mormon fields. The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company — a church-backed enterprise that began with the Mountain West's first beet-sugar factory at Lehi — ran this West Jordan plant, which pressed some 4.9 million tons of beets into more than thirteen million hundred-pound sacks of sugar. Its real legacy was in the lab: research here helped conquer the "curly top" disease that ravaged the crop and helped develop the hybrid monogerm seed that changed beet farming everywhere. The factory is gone; a rebuilt marker in Veterans Memorial Park keeps its account.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• International Peace Gardens — 7.9 mi
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• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 10 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 10 mi
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• Temple Square — 12 mi
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More markers nearby

• Salt Lake & Utah RR/Utah Idaho Sugar Factory — steps away
• Broom Factory and Wagon Train terminal — 0.3 mi
• West Jordan — 0.9 mi
• West Jordan Pioneer Church — 0.9 mi