Spreckels, CA House for Sale

Ensconced in the valley just south of Salinas, Spreckels got its start as a company town built around the Spreckels Sugar Plant in the late 1890s. The sugar beet factory was the largest in the world at the time. Spreckels Sugar has since moved its operations out of the tiny town, but vestiges of the town’s original atmosphere remain, preserved in the layout of the wide residential streets and the many early-20th-century homes and buildings still standing today. Even the park at its heart remains, though it’s been updated with 21st-century play ...