Betteravia, California

Inside the Union Sugar factory, sometime between 1910 and 1920.
Abandoned sugar silos in 2009.

Betteravia (from French betterave "sugar beet roots")[1] was a community in northern Santa Barbara County, California on Betteravia Road, six miles west of Santa Maria. It is notable as a rare ghost town on the Central Coast of California.

  1. ^ Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.