"View across the Cedar River toward the Sugar Beet Factory taken from Lover's Lane." Source: Waverly Public Library
"The Waterloo Granite Brick company has secured an order for 1,000,000 bricks for the Waverly beet sugar factory. The shipment will make 100 car loads. The sugar factory will require 2,000,000 bricks." source: Bremer County Independent, March 7, 1907.
Attorney F. E. Farwell is quoted in the May 16, 1907, Bremer County Independent: ". . . The big half million dollar plant of brick and steel is going up rapidly and the machinery will be fully installed and ready for operation by fall. The company has made contracts for the cultivation of more than 4,000 acres of sugar beets in a wide range of territory around Waverly, extending as far west as Marshalltown and almost equal distance to the north, south, and east. . ." The Bremer County Independent says this article was originally in the Register and Leader newspaper.
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"View across the Cedar River toward the Sugar Beet Factory taken from Lover's Lane." Source: Waverly Public Library
"The Waterloo Granite Brick company has secured an order for 1,000,000 bricks for the Waverly beet sugar factory. The shipment will make 100 car loads. The sugar factory will require 2,000,000 bricks." source: Bremer County Independent, March 7, 1907.
Attorney F. E. Farwell is quoted in the May 16, 1907, Bremer County Independent: ". . . The big half million dollar plant of brick and steel is going up rapidly and the machinery will be fully installed and ready for operation by fall. The company has made contracts for the cultivation of more than 4,000 acres of sugar beets in a wide range of territory around Waverly, extending as far west as Marshalltown and almost equal distance to the north, south, and east. . ." The Bremer County Independent says this article was originally in the Register and Leader newspaper.
Accession No. 90A0004. Additional photographs and resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library on the local and family history page http://www.waverlyia.com/public-library/research/local-and-family-history-collection.aspx