Kellogg Battle Creek Works
1906 - Operational
Overview
W K Kellogg turned Sanitarium health food experiments into the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906. The plant made breakfast cereal a mass industry and Battle Creek the cereal city, ringed by rival makers for a generation.
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