Editing Sugar City, Idaho (section)

==History==
Sugar City was a [[company town]] for the [[Fremont County Sugar Company]], which was part of the [[Utah-Idaho Sugar Company]], supporting a [[sugar beet]] processing factory built in 1903–1904.<ref name="arrington">{{cite book|last=Arrington|first=Leonard J.|title=Beet sugar in the West; a history of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966|publisher=[[University of Washington Press]]|year=1966|oclc=234150|pages=63–65}}</ref> Since it was created to support the factory, construction workers and early factory families were housed in tents, leading to the nickname "Rag Town".<ref name="arrington" /> By 1904, the town consisted of 35 houses, two stores, a hotel, an opera house, several boarding houses, two lumber yards, a meat market, and a schoolhouse.<ref name="arrington" /> The first [[Mormon]] ward was the Sugar City Ward, with [[Bishop (Mormonism)|Bishop]] Mark Austin. One of his counselors was James Malone, a construction engineer for [[E. H. Dyer]], who was not a Mormon.<ref name="arrington" />

In early years the factory had a labor shortage, leading to a local community of [[Japanese diaspora|''Nikkei'']]—[[Japan]]ese migrants and their descendants.<ref name="arrington" />

The city was flooded by the waters of the [[Teton Dam]] collapse on June 5, 1976.