Apache Powder Historic Residential District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Apache Powder Historic Residential District - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Apache Nitrogen Products purchased land in 1925, to provide housing for company management, from the Benson School District on West 6th Street in Benson, about north of the plant. Eight individual lots were sold to company officials, who had houses built (by unknown contractors). After a disagreement, the company purchased the lots back and then rented them to the employees at subsidized rates. Apache also build an "evacuation hospital" at 209 West 6th St. The company owned the properties for many decades, eventually selling them in the 1970s and 80s. A parcel on the north side of the street was used as a park and legally transferred in the 1960s by the company to the City of Benson. With Read more on Wikipedia
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