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📍 Sunsweet Growers Processing Plant

industrial · Yuba City · est. 1975 · still here

The world's largest dried fruit processing facility, located in Yuba City. Sunsweet Growers, a cooperative founded in 1917, relocated its primary processing operation to Yuba City in 1975. The 1.2-million-square-foot plant processes prunes, dried apricots, and other fruits from member orchards across the Sacramento Valley.

People connected to this place
  • 👤 Didar Singh Bains · Farmer; Philanthropist; "The Peach King" · 1938–2022
  • 👤 John Augustus Sutter · Colonist; Rancher; Founder of New Helvetia · 1803–1880
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