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The Sugar Shack's History
Since 1906, Crockett was owned mostly by C&H, making it virtually a Company Town. C&H continued to expand its operations and manpower was at a premium. Since workers didn't commute the distances then that they do now, C&H built houses all over town for its workers. The Sugar Shack was built around 1932, by C&H Sugar Refinery company carpenters, and hence the name Sugar Shack. It was probably built for a lower to middle management worker, who had his rent or mortgage deducted directly from his weekly paycheck.
Somewhere along the line, C&H sold off much of its property, and during the late 1940's and 1950's Mrs. Hall a 4th grade science teacher at the old elementary school, on Alhambra, around the corner, lived here. Her lawn mower is still here, in Happy's Garden. Two people who mowed her lawn still live in or around town, Steve Ball and Mike Calaveras.
In the late 1950's and much of the 1960's Robert "Bob" Hunter, and his family Dottie, Keith, Bobbi, and Joseph. Bob worked as a foreman for what was then Unical Refinery in Rodeo. Dolly was a telephone switchboard operator in Crockett. The house is still know by many old timers as "The Hunter Home".
In 1993 Rick Bushong and Coleen Creeden bought the home. For the next twelve years they spent much of their time restoring and modernizing it, calling it their hobby.
Now it can be your turn to carve out a bit of history in this sugar shack!
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