Historian Ken Jessen will speak about the Great Western Sugar Company and the railway that brought products and supplies to the factory during a special event Saturday, March 29. LOVELAND, CO - Oct.

The Great Western Railway was built specifically to serve the rail transportation needs of the Great Western Sugar Co. Its primary purpose was to haul freshly harvested sugar beets from the ...

The Great Western Sugar Factory opened for business on Vine Drive in Fort Collins in January 1904. The town celebrated with a joyful “sugar day.” Entrepreneur Charles Boettcher, local businessman ...

From the Times-Call photo archive via Longmont Museum: “The giant sugar storage silos added to the complex at the Longmont Factory of the Great Western Sugar Co. now dwarf the plant behind them where ...