Meeker Sugar Refinery
Appearance
Meeker Sugar Refinery | |
Location | US 71, Meeker in Rapides Parish, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 31°3′30″N 92°22′43″W / 31.05833°N 92.37861°W |
Area | 21 acres (8.5 ha) |
Built | 1912 |
Architect | Meeker Sugar Refinery Co., Inc. |
NRHP reference No. | 87002023[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 16, 1987 |
Meeker Sugar Refinery is located in Meeker in south Rapides Parish, Louisiana. The refinery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1987.
It was operated by the Klock brothers, Ernest Lorne Klock (1879–1967) and Neil Haven Klock (1896–1978), the latter of whom who served from 1940 to 1944 in the Louisiana House of Representatives as one of the three Rapides Parish members.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Ernest Lorne Klock" (PDF). klockconnections.com. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
- ^ "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2016: Rapides Parish" (PDF). house.Louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
Categories:
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
- Sugar refineries in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Rapides Parish, Louisiana
- Industrial buildings completed in 1912
- 1912 establishments in Louisiana
- Sugar industry of Louisiana
- Louisiana Registered Historic Place stubs