1916 - Sugar Beet Dump Ramp

Sugar Beet Dump Ramp along Murray Street. Sugar beets were introduced as a farm product in 1903. After harvesting the beets would be hauled to the railroad tracks, unloaded onto the ground and then when a railroad car was available the beets had to be manually loaded onto the train car. The Sugar Beet Dump Ramp was constructed in 1916 and the wagons of sugar beets could be dumped directly into a railroad car on the track below the structure.