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The street running parallel to the right hand side of the frame is Shackamaxon Street, and if you look closely you can just make out a sliver of the Edward Corner marine warehouse building that remains, waiting for reuse (fingers crossed, Mr. If you look beyond and between the Sugar House and lumber pier in the foreground, you can see rail cars line up at the Shackamaxon Freight Yard. The buildings were demolished in 1997, and of course SugarHouse Casino stands on this site today. Then in the early 1980s National Sugar Refining closed the refinery and sold the property. Over time the refinery complex grew to 18 buildings, ownership shifted and the workforce grew.

Philadelphia has a long history of sugar refining and this particular facility along the Delaware was started in the 1880s, and for decades was operated by the Pennsylvania Sugar Company. In this aerial from Octowe see the Pennsylvania Sugar Company’s operations at full steam. Long before there was the SugarHouse Casino, there was the Sugar House, a major sugar refining operation along the Delaware River between Frankford Avenue and Shackamaxon Street.

Hugo's at sugarhouse casino philadelphia