The Spreckels Sugar Company was founded by entrepreneur, industrialist, newspaper publisher, and railroad executive Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) in February 1899. He founded the company town of Spreckels, California, just south of the city of Salinas, California, in 1897, but his descendants began to relinquish control when they started selling homes in the community to the public c. 1925.
American author John Steinbeck lived in Spreckels and worked on ranches owned by Spreckels Sugar throughout the Salinas Valley in the early 1920s. The tiny town of Spreckels was the location for 1955's East of Eden, based on John Steinbeck's tragic tale of sibling rivalry set in the rural Salinas Valley.
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