Industries of Waukegan Lakefront Industries Washburn & Moen “Wiremill” EN ESPAÑOL & ENGLISH waukeganparks.org/signs Lakefront of Industry State Sugar Refinery, opening in 1890. The Sugar Refinery Waukegan’s natural harbor helped secure the city as the...
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Industries of Waukegan Lakefront Industries Washburn & Moen “Wiremill” EN ESPAÑOL & ENGLISH waukeganparks.org/signs Lakefront of Industry State Sugar Refinery, opening in 1890. The Sugar Refinery Waukegan’s natural harbor helped secure the city as the focused on procession corn into many items such as syrups, county seat of Lake County in 1841. The population of the city sweeteners, and animal feeds. The Washburn & Moen “wire grew steadily, but that changed after the first major industries mill” opened in 1891 when the manufacturing need for more Tannery Workers arrived in the 1890s. These large lakefront industries required barbed wire grew due to the expansion of the American West. a large work force and people from all around the world Local John D. Curtis improved upon the original barbed wire, moved to Waukegan for employment. with his invention, Waukegan Barbed Wire. Some other industries along Waukegan’s lakefront included Johns As Waukegan was growing in population and size, it
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