National and State Register
National Sugar Manufacturing Company Gates
Crowley County
Constructed ca. 1900 by George Feick & Company of Sandusky, Ohio, the National Sugar Manufacturing Company Gates were erected on the southern edge of Sugar City as the grand entrance to the National Beet Sugar Company factory completed that same year.
A driving force in the region’s economy for several decades, the factory ceased operations in 1967 and was demolished in the mid-1970s. The brick and wrought iron gates are a recognizable local landmark and prominent visual reminder of the critical role that the sugar beet factory played in the founding of Sugar City and the lives of its residents. The gates are the only surviving resource associated with the beet processing plant that once dominated the local landscape and employed much of its population.