Information Received from a Former Upjohn Employee at the La Porte Plant

"I’ve been wanting to sent my thanks to you for a few years now. Your archives of the CPR division at the La Porte/Houston site has been an amazing resource into the history of my old chemical plant, which as of late 2023 has been officially decommissioned and leveled. The site now sits mostly empty with no signs of its 60 years of history.

 

Thanks to your site I was able to share some photos from the past to the old timers that still remembered the Upjohn days. The old timers shared similar memories of the good old days like you had in your stories. They could be quoted as saying those were the best years of the site.

 

I joined the site in the late 2010s and missed the golden years, but I’ve always had an interest in the site's past, so thank you again for archiving the history. Nowadays companies have little interest in saving personal memories from the employees that worked there, and Dow Chemical is no different. All the years of archived Upjohn ‘yearbooks’ were rounded up and stored somewhere, never to see the light of day, or perhaps they were destroyed in the decommissioning.

 

The site continued operating Upjohn equipment up until its last days, and a few pieces of equipment still had Upjohn tags attached when they were removed for salvage in 2023. I have attached a few historic photos of the site from 1960s and one in the late 1980s after the sale to Dow Chemical Co."