Sugar Creek Businesses

Browns, Sugar Creek and Riggs, Waterford Township, Clinton County, Iowa

Compiled by Lorraine Houghton and Marilu Thurman, updated August 2006.
Thank you so much to Lorraine and Marilu for sending this information to us. 

Sugar Creek Businesses

One of the first Sugar Creek industries was a Shoe Makers shop owned by John Proost. His shop was located on the site of the Wm. Reuter garden today. Another business was the Bormann Saloon, which was located at the site of the William Reuter home, which is to the southeast of the school, across the road. In the 1885 census, John Bormann was listed was a saloon keeper. Around 1980, chips labeled "Bormann Saloon, good for 1 glass of beer" were found there. The early immigrants took the train to Clinton, Iowa according to their descendants, and some of them actually walked to Borman’s Store in Sugar Creek.