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Spreckels Organ Build
Spreckels may refer to: * Spreckels (surname) * Spreckels, California, originally a company town of the Spreckels Sugar Company * Spreckels Lake, San Francisco, a man-made model boating facility in Golden Gate Park. *Spreckels Mansion, a mansion in Coronado, California, built for John D. Spreckels * Spreckels Mansion (San Francisco), a 1912 mansion built in San Francisco, California, for Adolph B. and Alma Spreckels * Spreckels Organ, San Francisco, donated by Adolph B. Spreckels, at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor *Spreckels Sugar Company The Spreckels Sugar Company is an American sugar beet refiner that for many years was the largest beet sugar producer in the western United States. The company was incorporated and originally headquartered in San Francisco, with its largest operati ..., founded by Claus Spreckels * Spreckels Theater Building, built in San Diego, California in 1912 {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spreckels (surname)
Spreckels is a Geman surname, most notably associated with the German-American Spreckels family. Related names include , Sprekelsen, and Spreckens, often preceded by the German participle von. Notable people with the surname Spreckels include: * Adolph B. Spreckels, entrepreneur and philanthropist, son of Claus Spreckels *Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, socialite, philanthropist, and wife of Adolph B. Spreckels * Bunker Spreckels (born Adolph B. Spreckels III), surfer, grandson of Adolph B. Spreckels *Claus Spreckels, industrialist, founder of the Spreckels Sugar Company and other enterprises, and of Spreckels dynasty * Elisabeth Meyer-Spreckels, chemist, politician, founding member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, grand-niece of Claus Spreckels *John D. Spreckels John Diedrich Spreckels (August 16, 1853 – June 7, 1926) was an American businessman who founded a transportation and real estate empire in San Diego, California, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spreckels, California
Spreckels is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Salinas Valley of Monterey County, California, United States. Spreckels is located south of Salinas, at an elevation of . Its population was 692 at the 2020 census. Spreckels is one of the best-preserved company towns in the United States. It was built to house workers for the Spreckels Sugar Company plant, which operated there from 1899 until 1982, named after its founder "Sugar King" Claus Spreckels. When it opened, the Spreckels plant was the world's largest sugar beet factory, each day consuming of water—with much of it pumped from wells—to process of beets. Spreckels is associated with the writer John Steinbeck, who lived and worked there for a time, and used it as a setting in his novel '' Tortilla Flat''. Spreckels was used as a location for the 1955 Steinbeck movie '' East of Eden''. History The Spreckels post office opened in 1898. The name honors Claus Spreckels, who built a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spreckels Lake
The Spreckels Lake Model Yacht Facility, commonly referred to as "Spreckels Lake", is an artificial reservoir behind an earthen dam and adjoining clubhouse situated on the northern side of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Completed in mid-March 1904,"Miniature Yachts Race on Spreckels Lake Waters" San Francisco Call, Volume 95, Number 112, March 21, 1904 the reservoir was built for the use of model boaters of all ages, interests, and skill levels, designed specifically for racing model sail and power boats and to propagate the skills and crafts necessary to build and sail competitive model boats of all types. The Spreckels Lake Model Yacht Facility is considered one of the finest examples and one of the most beautiful of the naturalistically styled, man-made model boating facilities in the world and is always open to anyone wishing to sail its waters with Spreckels Lake#Rules governing model boats using the model yacht facility., few restrictions. The facility is also the perma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
