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Stemilt Growers, owned by the Mathison family, is a family-owned tree fruit growing, packing and shipping company based in Wenatchee, Washington.Stemilt is the largest fresh market sweet cherry shipper in the world, [1] and one of the nation's largest grower-packer-shippers of apples, pears, cherries, and stone fruit.
By 1947 the Beebe Orchard Company was the state's largest apple growing enterprise operated by a single family. [ 5 ] Although not originally intended for public vehicle crossing, the historic bridge's 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) wooden-deck roadway aided in fruit transport and helped the company recoup the cost of extending the water pipeline by ...
The state has led the U.S. in apple production since the 1920s. [11] Two Eastern Washington areas account for the vast majority of the state's apple crop: the Wenatchee–Okanogan region (comprising Chelan, Okanogan, Douglas, and Grant counties), and the Yakima region (Yakima, Benton and Kittitas counties). [12]
It connected Chelan County on the west (Wenatchee) shore with Douglas County on the East Wenatchee shore. The bridge opened East Wenatchee and the rest of Douglas County to apple orchard development. Still standing today, the bridge is a 1,060-foot (320 m) pin-connected steel cantilever bridge and cost $177,000 to build.
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The Okanogan Steamboat Company was a shipping company that ran steamboats on the Columbia River above Wenatchee, Washington from the late 19th century to 1915. Its steamboats included Pringle, Chelan, and North Star. [1]
The Downtown Wenatchee Historic District, located in Wenatchee, Washington, United States, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The district, encompassing 34 acres (14 ha), is a collection of commercial, mixed-used, and warehouse buildings located in the central business district of Wenatchee downtown.
September 17, 1974 (About 11.2 miles (18.0 km) southwest of Cashmere, in Wenatchee National Forest: Cashmere: 3: Bridge Creek Cabin-Ranger Station: February 10, 1989 (In Bridge Creek Campground, southwest of Stehekin Valley Trail, about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Stehekin, in North Cascades National Park