Sugar · operation or company
Southern Sugar Company
the failed founder of the Clewiston sugar industry
- Founded
- 1925 to 1931
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Place
- Clewiston, Hendry County
- District
- The Glades
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Gone; its Clewiston assets become U.S. Sugar Corporation in 1931.
- Connections
- 3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.008 (rank 90 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.005 (rank 56) · outside share 0.00
- Confidence
- High · sources: [JMFS] [FHS29] [USSH] [USS25] (register)
Bror G. Dahlberg's company acquires 130,000 acres in the upper Everglades from 1925 and relocates the failed Pennsylvania Sugar mill from Pennsuco to Clewiston in 1927; the Clewiston Sugar House opens 19 January 1929 [JMFS][USS25][FHS29]. Receivership follows in fall 1930 and Charles Stewart Mott buys the assets in 1931 [JMFS][USSH].
Connections
Location and lineage
- founded byBror Dahlbergacquires 130,000 acres in the upper Everglades, per the reference history1925
- becameU.S. Sugar Corporationthe assets become U.S. Sugar1925 to 1931
- builtClewiston mill and refinerybuilds the mill opened 19 January 19291929