Photo says: "Iowa Sugar Factory Waverly IA" Written on the back is "Orville Kammeyer "
Bremer County Independent, March 7, 1907: "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."
Bremer County Independent, May 16, 1907, quotes F. E. Farwell, a prominent Waverly attorney: "The half million dollar plant of brick and steel is going up rapidly . . . 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 . . ."
Bremer County Independent, October 24, 1907: ". . . The Waverly beet sugar factory is the first to be built in Iowa and the year 1907 is its first year. . . "
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Photo says: "Iowa Sugar Factory Waverly IA" Written on the back is "Orville Kammeyer "
Bremer County Independent, March 7, 1907: "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."
Bremer County Independent, May 16, 1907, quotes F. E. Farwell, a prominent Waverly attorney: "The half million dollar plant of brick and steel is going up rapidly . . . 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 . . ."
Bremer County Independent, October 24, 1907: ". . . The Waverly beet sugar factory is the first to be built in Iowa and the year 1907 is its first year. . . "
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 Accession No. 90M0019