Oxnard Sugar Beets

Ventura County's Lost Cash Crop

By: Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt

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Paperback | 31 October 2016

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In the early 1890s, farmers Albert Maulhardt and John Edward Borchard discovered Ventura County's favorable conditions for a highly profitable new cash crop: the sugar beet. Not long after inviting sugar mogul Henry T. Oxnard to the area, construction began on a $2 million sugar factory capable of processing two thousand tons of beets daily. The facility brought jobs, wealth and the Southern Pacific rail line. It became one of the country's largest producers of sugar, and just like that, a town was born. Despite the industry's demise, the city of Oxnard still owes its name to the man who delivered prosperity. A fifth-generation descendant, local author and historian Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt details the rise and fall of a powerful enterprise and the entrepreneurial laborers who helped create a city.

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"From the late 1890s to the late 1950s, sugar beets were the crop that brought fame and a name -- and jobs, the railroad and numerous other businesses -- to what is today Ventura County's largest city. The story of the rise and fall of Oxnard's sugar beet industry is told comprehensively by, logically, local historian Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt in 'Oxnard Sugar Beets: Ventura County's Lost Cash Crop.'" Ventura County Star

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