06 July 2013

Essexville Michigan SUGAR BEETS

My family from Essexville Michigan 
were Sugar Beet Farmers

Spiegel Family was sugar beet farmers

Sugar beets became a cash crop for the area.  With the lumbering age at it close and cleared land what to do but plant Sugar Beets.

Essexville, Sugar Beets, Family Lore, Family History, Sugar Beet country, Bay City


Essexville, Sugar Beets, Family Lore, Family History, Sugar Beet country, Bay City

Essexville, Sugar Beets, Family Lore, Family History, Sugar Beet country, Bay City





Essexville, Sugar Beets, Family Lore, Family History, Sugar Beet country, Bay City


Essexville, Sugar Beets, Family Lore, Family History, Sugar Beet country, Bay City 
above pictures from:  http://www.sweetbeet.com


Since I grew up in Michigan we had Beet sugar.  Then when I moved back east to Boston, I could not find beet sugar all they had was cane sugar. 



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