They refined more than half the sugar in the United States. was one of the original 12 companies making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Sugar production was so important in the U.S. A third generation Havemeyer renamed it Domino Sugar in 1900. The company was started in 1856 by the Havemeyer family as the American Sugar Refining Company. Many Brooklynites are aware of Williamsburg’s iconic Domino Sugar Factory. This raw sugar is then shipped to the northern refineries. This juice is collected and boiled in huge vats to filter out dirt, leaves and other large impurities, then dried and baled. Sugar production begins when the cane fields are cut down and transported to nearby processing facilities where the stalks are further cut, mashed under rollers and broken, releasing the sap. Photo by Edwin Rosskam via Library of Congress Workers loading sugar cane in Puerto Rico in 1938. Sugar plantations in the Caribbean formed one of the points in the golden triangle of money and slavery that propelled the economies of two continents, while later production in the islands of the Pacific made millionaires of the colonial powers there, too. Sugar cane can only be grown in tropical and subtropical climates, making this already labor-intensive product even harder to produce. The refineries extracted the sugar in various forms, and the goods were further packaged and distributed across the nation. Raw cane was shipped from tropical countries around the world, offloaded into warehouses and processed here. Sugar was big business, and Brooklyn’s sugar barons were some of the city’s wealthiest men. The ports and piers of New York, specifically those in Brooklyn, made this kingdom of sugar possible. New York City was once the sugar capital of the world. Sugar was once one of Brooklyn’s biggest industries, and the Revere Sugar plant dominated the Red Hook waterfront for almost 100 years.
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